The Hyder Weekly Herald
Established 1924
Published Saturday at the Herald
Building, Second Ave., Hyder, Alaska.
Chas. F. Sandford
Sole Owner and Publisher
Entered as second-class matter at the
postoffice at Hyder, Alaska, under the
act of March 3, 187!).
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Theory Overweighs Ju'dgmenl
Henry Ford’s famous threat
to close down his plants if pro
hibition ever was repealed, has
so far failed of realization.
Henry is still on the job turn
ing cut his products. Product
ion reports show no<t even an
appreciable diminution in his
activities despite the relega
tion of prohibition to the realm
of discarded things.
Henry’s threat was just an ex
ample.. of how men sometimes
become so emotional over polit
ical and moi’al opinions that
reason and good judgment are
temporarily lost sight of.
The belief of the temporance
zealots that moral and social
disaster would surely follow
repeal was as foolish as their
previous prophesies of an in
dustrial and social paradise un
der the great experiment. They
lived to see the country strug
gling for its very existence as
a political entity in -the great
est and most devastating peri
od of poverty and distress in its
history.
That America is not going to
the dogs as a result of repeal
and is not in the least likely to
do so is clearly revealed in re
port: showing that the nation is
exercising its new-found temp
erance freedom with exceeding
discretion. This is well illus
trated in a report from New
York City that'one magistrate
on the morning after Christmas j
did not have a single inebriety j
case before him. This was
said to be an all-time record
for that district.
It just goes to show ihat even 1
smart people can easily per- J
suade themselves that disaster
is sure to result if their partic
ular theories are not followed, j
Plato, 'over 2,000 years ago,
saw the world heading for sure
disaster because his pet
theories were rejected.
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Few Are Satisfied
Most people are far from sat
isfied with the world and life,
no matter how well they fare
in the journey between the cra
dle and the grave.
Away back in (the past did
Omar Khayyam complained:
“Ah, Love, could you and I
with Him Conspire;
To grasp this sorry Scheme
of Things entire;
Would we not shatter it to
bits, and then
Remold it nearer to the
Heart’s Desire?”
I We sometimes think there
j are a lot of people who will not
be content even in Heaven.
They are never satisfied with
the way the Creator has fixed
things here and they probably
wouldn’t be any better content
ed over there. And we can’t
imagine how even the Creatoi
could possibly fix up Heaven
to suit each individual’s taste.
At that, dissatisfaction is a
great thing here on earth if it
is bsed on justifiable reasons;
but most of it is not. It does
more ito push humanity upward
from the day than could any
thing else of which the mind
can conceive.
If everybody was satisfied
with things as they find them,
most of us wouldn’t bother to
even keep our faces clean.
Just for Fun
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Some people act foolish and
others dont have to act.
Love is like an onion; you
take it with delight, and when
it is gone you wonder, what
ever made you bite.
- - -
! Stories frequently printed in
the Outside papers convince us
that the hand that rocks the
cradle has grown decidedly
adept at pulling triggers.
With repeal of prohibition
the distillers are said to be
making a new kind of whiskey
called chicken whiskey—one
drink and you lay.
First Motorist: Were you
ever pinched for going too
fast?
Second Ditto: No, but I have
been slapped.
It’s a great country, all right;
you get fined if you go wrong
and get taxed if you succeed— j
unless you get to be a million-!
aLre. I
There is always two sides to
every question, the wrong side
and your own side.
INTERESTING NOTES
An average of 433 earth
quakes occur in Italy each year.
A New York publishing house
has received an torder for 111,
000 copies of the Bible from a
London department store.
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
May 16, 1924.
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Andrew K. Sweeney, mill
wright at the Premier, died of
heart failure while on a vaca
tion visit in Stewart.
Jack Frumento of Gowichan,
B. C., who is interested in the
Terminus, is visiting that prop
erty.
Miss M. Wells arrived from
Vancouver to take over the
post of matron at the Stewart
hospital.
W. J. Crawford has complet
ed a fine tennis court at his
home in Stewart. It is a lum
ber court, with ample room.
The Standard Oil Company
has established an agency at j
Hyder with the Salmon River!
Dock Company.
C. W. Peterson has uncovered
some fine-looking and heavily
j mineralized galena tore on his
; Butte group of five claims!
j about 7t<> miles north of Hyder. j
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Rev. Arthur W. R. Ashely, j
the new minister of St. Mark’s!
church in Stewart arrived from ’
the south Sunday with his wife j
and baby girl.
William Fonest, owner of
valuable mining interest in the
upper Salmon area, arrived to
start the season’s activities.
—
J. D. Lit'tlepage, engineer for
the Riverside mine, returned
this week from a visit in
Seattle.
A son was born Saturday
morning to Mr. and Mrs. John
Rennie of Stewart.
The Cardena brought in a
heavy shipment of mining sup
plies for the Glacier Creek Co.
—
Harold Blanton, Hyder’s I
star baseball pitcher and boxer, 1
returned from a winter stay in
Seattle.
MENTAL NUTS
Can You Crack Them?
The Plow Boy—
A farm boy plowing a field j
was asked how many acres j
were in the field.
The boy said, “The field is j
square. I have plowed 1 rod
wide around it and just x/> the
field is plowed.”
The Boatman’s Puzzle—
A boatman being asked the
depth of the river replied:
“This pole stood on the bot- j
tom reaches 6 feet out of the j
waiter; but if the top is moved
12 feet to one side it becomes
level with the water. What
was depth of river?
FRANK A, METCALF
CIVIL & MINING ENGINEER
II. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
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Hyder
Methodist Episcopal
Church
* Rev. F. Bushfield, Pastor.
* Hyder Methodist Episcopal Church
* Su-nday School at 10:30 a. m.
* Evening Service at 7:30 p. m.
* Everyone is cordially invited to
* the services.
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