HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Established 1924
Published Every Saturday at the Herald Building,
Second Avenue,Hyder, Alaska.
Ohas. 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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NOBODY READS THEM
Why do newspapers print ed
itorials? The editor is told fre
quently enough that nobody
reads them nowadays and that
the day is past when newspap
ers can mould public opinion.
No. Nobody reads the editor
ials unless they happen, for in
stance, to attribute to Shakes
peare a quotation which is real
ly from the Bible.
Unless they “exhibit clearly
the colossal ignorance of your
editorial writer.”
Unless they display “a spirit
of unfairness scarcely in keep
ing with the tradition of your
paper.”
Unless they contain facts “so
palpably false” that a retract
ion is demanded at once.
Unless they are so “biased”
that people write in to say they
have stopped reading them,
thereby indicating that they
have been read at some prev
ious time.
Unless they have fiercely and
courageously attacked the
“terrible corruption existing in
high places.”
Unless they contain a typo
graphical error, giving a Rab
elasian flavor to an innocent
sentence, which makes the
whole town smile.
No. Nobody reads the editor
ials. But just let an editorial,
even inadvertantly, tread on
someone’s toes and its darned
strange how soon the newspap
er hears about it!
And that is why the news
papers continue to print them.
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THEY PLAY THE GAME
Is golf going to take the place
of baseball as our foremost
national sport?
You may scoff at the suggest
ion, but we read in an Outside
journal the other day that the
sporting goods manufacturers
estimate that at least 2,000,000
Americans are golfers.. And
that is only a beginning. Any
one with his eyes open realizes
that a golf craze is sweeping
the country liko a prairie fire.
In popularity, golf is growing
far faster than baseball grew
in its early days. And for ev
ery one that plays golf, there
are five who would be playing
it if they could.
In the main, golf is still the
rich man’s game. The price of
getting into a good golf club
is prohibitive for the everage
man, and usually intentionally
so, to keep the membership
“exclusive.” But with munici
pal golf links now coming on
the scene in ever increasing
numbers, there will soon be op
portunities for far greater
numbers to learn and play the
game.
If golf ever does dethrone
baseball, it will be a good
thing for the national health.
The baseball fan rarely plays
the game himself. He sits and
watches professionals play.
For this reason, baseball in
America is no longer a sport.
Instead it is a form of theatri
cals. You do not, however, find
golf enthusiasts sitting back
and watching other players—
except an occasional star. The
golfer is by no means a grand
stand loafer like most of the
baseball fans. He gets out and
plays the game himself.
READ THE NEWSPAPERS
The woman who knows her
paper from the date line to the
want ads can pick an argument
with her husband about a can
; didates chances or blondes be
| coming extinct, and the result
! will be that she will get all
the argument she wants with
out interfering in the least
with her domestic happiness.
Instead of panning her lady
friends she can lam the harp^
oon into some dame who is
dragging her husband through
the divorce courts, or she can
grill the dramatic critic who
doesn’t like a certain book as
much as she does. She can
voice an opinion about a bit of
news and throw more of a
scare into her husband than if
she tried to crown him with the
rolling pin.
The fact is, however, that
most women read the news
papers with little desire to ab
sorb more than a small part of
the mass of information they
contain. If they did the men
would probably soon come to
think that home was more or
less of a debating club.
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THE REAL SECRET
OF HAPPINESS
There is a lesson for grown
up’s in that felicity of child
hood to make play out of work.
Making play of work is the
real secret of happiness. Hap
piness is never attained by or
through slaving today in the
anticipation of being able, fi
nancially, to play tomorrow.
The man who takes pleasure in
his work—makes play of it—
is enjoying life in its full. He
does not need to depend upon
financial independence for his
happiness. He is the man, 01
woman, whom the world has
always mistaken for the in
spired genius because “love of
work,” “ambitions,” and “as
piration” are terms foreign to
a world finding in work noth
ing but “toil,” “slavery,” “la
bor,” “struggle” and “drug
ery,” and working for nothing
but “repose,” relaxation,” and
a perpetual holiday.
Love of work is possible eith
er in digging ditches or sculpt
juiing eternal marble, but good
work is only possible from men
and women who make play of
their work. To the eye and
ear it seems paradoxical, but
the mind has long conceived
i that human beings who make
i play of their work play less
i their work.
Just for Fun
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Three stages showing the un
happy progress of man: Emp
ty; fed; fed up.
A liberator is one who sup
presses those who formerly
suppressed his crowd.
Europe has intellectuals, but
they can’t say “yokel" in that
| withering way ours have.
Nothing can astonish a coun
try that can so quickly adjust
itself to a new flivver model.
One thing Americans have in
common is a desire to acquire
! culture in six easy less,ons.
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! The vulgarities that shock
, people most in public are the
ones they enjoy most in pri
vate.
Communism will work under
certain conditions. All we need
; is a world of people who had
rather give than get.
—
Did you ever notice that most
: of the things called “a necess
ity in every household” are
made of tin and get out of or
der the next day.
It looks to us that in the event
of anyone building a better
mouse trap nowadays, the
beaten path would be made by
people asking him to make
speeches.
Salesman: “Well, I see you’re
enlarging your store again.”
Progressive Grocer: “You’re
Yight. I’m a grocer who’s a
grow-sir!”
So far as we can see the
American dollar is the only
successful universal language.
Judging by the evidence,
there must be a big surplus of
uncut dressgoods stored up
somewhere.
The great need is not a gas
that won’t burst into flame,
but prejudices that won’t.
We have noticed that the av
erage man worries a lot more
over being wrong if he discov
ers that he has lost some mon
ey.
A baker-confectioner over in
China stopped manufacturing
candy because of two much
demand for his wares, accord
ing to a recent news dispatch.
When demand exceeded the
supply the celestial merchant
could see no solution but to sus
pend trade entirely. He ex
plained that “too many per
sons were coming to buy can
dy.’’
Hoot Mon!
They tell of a Scotchman and
his wife who entered a restaur
ant and ordered one sandwich.
The man carefully cut it in two
and started to eat. His wife sat
waiting. The waiter asked her
if she wanted anything? To
which she replied: “Jock’s
usin’ the teeth. When he gets
through I’ll eat my half.
ALASKA NOTES
Culled From the Newspapers
Of the Territory.
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“Tiny” Walker, Ketchikan
resident, and also known as
David Chess, was found dead
>n a road near that place. His
death was due to heart disease.
Charging unlawful arrest by
dry officers, Evelyn Alcock re
cently filed a complaint in the
district court at Seward against
T. L. Chidister and Gerald L.
Church, the retiring dry chief
>f the territory and his success
or, asking $10,000 damages.
Mrs. Henry Lohr and Mrs.
Kail Young, Fairbanks resi
dents, were injured recently
when the car in which they
were riding was crowded into
i ditch by a car driven by
Charles Lynn. Mrs. Lohr sus
tained a minor skull fracture
md her companion was severe
ly bruised.
Gus Meyers, pioneer Alaskan,
died recently in the Fairbanks
hospital. Death was due to
chronic kidney trouble.
Proceeds from a sale of com
ficated furs held in Juneau re
cently totaled $5,631 and was
derived from 288 skins. Mon
eys derived from such sales is
divided equally between the
territory and the federal gov
ernment, the 50 per cent accru
ing to the territory being de
voted to school purposes.
A party sent out by U. S.
from Ketchikan to search for
J. C. Setterington, trapper and
prospector, who left Ketchikan
for the Unuk River some time
ago, returned a few days ago
after giving up the search in
the belief that the man is dead.
Setterington apparently nev
er reached his claims near the
Canadian border and it is be
lieved he was drowned and
his boat swamped while as
ccnding the river.
Jack St. Ledger, 70, old-timer
of the north, reached the end
of life’s trail in the Anchorage
hospital a few days ago, after
i stroke of paralysis sustained
March 25. Deceased was in the
■mploy of the Alaska Railroad
in recent years.
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 jewelty fur
nished on short notice.
Crosley Radios on Hand. Coir^e
In And Look Them Over.
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