<. HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Published Every Wednesday.
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aska, as second class matter, under the Act of March 8,
1879. _
Chas. F. Sandford. Editor.
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
The introduction of two lit
eracy test bills in the first days
of the present session of the
Alaska legislature should re
ceive hearty approval from all
true Alaskans. In view of the
large number of native ele
ments who, in spite of the pos
sesion of the rights of citi
zendrp cannot be even re
motely considered as possess
ing pro"er qualifications for
th® exercise of the franchise,
the adoption of some method
of preventing a misuse of the
great power they represent is
absolutely essential to the
maintenance of good govern
ment. As pointedly indicated
by Governor Bone in his mes
sage to the legislature :•
“Knowledge is the very • es
sence of citizenship. Education
i* ’t? b^sp. Ability to read and
write should be made the es
<Rentirl pre-requisite of the
franchise. Otherwise it be
comes •» mockery and a trav
esty. Therefore, this legis-1
lature should amend and;
rtreng+hpp the election laws
bv adding a qualification i
dance applicable to all voters!
re<r--dless of previous condit-!
ion.”
Arrivals from Ketchikan re
port that the success of the Riv
ervds mine and thg excellent
prosne^t* of the Mountain
view Gold Mining Company
propert-'es on Fish Creek, both
of which are backed principal
ly bv Ketchikan people, are
caus;ncr a vast increase of in
terest in local mining among
the First City residents. One
informant states that nearly
everyone he met in a weeks’
visit w’anted to talk “mining at
Hyder” and many appeared
eager to ‘take a chance” at
some of the local prospects.
It is perhaps needless to sug
gest that this attitude is one
that should have been adopt
ed by the Ketchikan people
long ago. Hyder and Ketch
ikan bear much the same re
lation to each other as Seattle ■
does to Alaska. Situated at1
the gateway to this district it
w'll always command a large
portion of the local trade with
the outside world. Whatever
progress is achieved here is
bound to benefit Ketchikan to
some degree-just how much
depends to a great extent on
how much effort is made by
her business interests to co
operate with the miners and
business men of this section.
By helping in the development
of the local mineral resources
the people of Ketchikan will
be furthering their own pros
perity. Ketchikan depends at
present largely upon the fish
eries for her support but fish
and fishing are precarious
| things and before many years
are passed her present prolific
fish trade will yield to the pro
cesses of depletion and either
! vanish or become a minor in
dustry. When that time arrives
Ketchikan must look to the
mining industry and partic
ularly to the mining of this
section for her principal means
of support.
■o
Postal employees throughout
the country are, it can be safe
ly assumed, pleased, for the
pay raise for which they have
long been contending is now
assured, President Coolidge
having signed the bill that j
means an increase of about an :
average of $300.00 a year for
them. It is reasonable to ex
pect that the postal service,
now that it has been relieved
of the handicap of b'eing und
erpaid, of which it had so long
and vigorously complained,
will respond to the increase by
an improved efficiency. That
will be the way for the service
to satisfy the public which has
to foot the bill.
o....
President Coolidge is said to
be an infrequent dancer, but
there are some folks around
the capitol who have been ex
ecuting a quick step since he
took over'the White House
job.
Just For Fun
With the Denesmailing their
Senate the "Landsthing,” the
Blueberry Kid aaka why -we
shouldn’t call cur Senate the
“Damthing?”
Does a red-headed woman al
ways marry a'meek man, or
does he just get that way?
The thing that causes unhap
py marriages is that each party
gets about what he deserves.
If eggs continue to go up,
the goose that laid the golden
egg will be considered a cheap
skate.
It pays to be square-Look at
the cross word puzzle.
Where will the world find
room to stack all its diction
aries when the puzzle fad
fades out?
There are a lot of good ex
cuses for doing right but most
people don’t look for them.
About the only thing that can
compete with a boy’s hnaginat
jion as to capacity is his stom
!ach. '
| The president has the pecu
liar notion that the way to get
something done is to go to
.work.
Hubert T. Says that 9 man
bigger than you is never a liar.
He is just mistaken.
A parlor athlete rarely makes
a good footplayer.
Minister—My boy, do not
curse so. The angels will hear
you.
Boy—Aw, go on, even Saint
Peter tells lots of people to go
to hell.
, Noel must have got an eyeful
jsomewhere; anyway here’s his
latest jingle:
She's a very naughty girlie,
! And the skirt she wears is
! shocking;
| You can read the serial
'numbers
!
On the bank notes in her
; stocking.
Variety may be the spice of
life, but we think a lot of pep
is the spice of life.
The Man Who Came Back
The Prodigal Son.
It is hard for rich men to get
into heaven. Also for poor
ones.
Judge: Have you any grounds
against this man for your
breach of promise suit?
Liza—Deed Ah has! Ah prom
ised maself to marry dat man,’
an' he ain’t never asked me to.
An exchange says the editor
of a weekly newspaper moved
to town one day and deposited
$50,000 in one of the local
banks. He had been publish
ing his little country paper
for thirty years and had mov
ed to the city with around
$60,000 to his credit. When
asked by the reporter for the
secret of his great financial
success, he said:
“I attribute my ability to re
tire with a $50,000 bank ac
count after thirty years in the
country newspaper field to
close application to duty; al
;ways hewing to the mark and
letting the chi|>s fall where
they may; the most rigid rules
of economy; never spending
,a cent foolishly; everlastingly
keeping at my job with a
whole heart; and the death of
an uncle who left me $49,999.
50.”
| The scribe has a faded clip
ping in his possession about
the difficulties of a pioneer
neyspaper, which reads:
“We begin the publication
ov the Roccay Mountain Cy
! clone with some phew diphphi
culties in the way. The type
'phounder phrom whom we
bought our outphit phor this
printing ophice phaled to sup
ply us with any ephs or cays,
and it will be phour or phive
weex bephore we can get any.
The mistaque was not phound
out till a day or two ago. We
have ordered the missing let
ters, and will have to get along
without them till they come.
We don’t lique the loox of this
variety ov spelling any better
than our readers, but mistax
j will happen in the best regu
lated phamilies, and iph the
ph’s and c’s and x’s hold out
've shall ceep (sound the c
|hard) the Cyclone whirling
iaphter a phasion till the sorts
i arrive.. It is no joke to us—It’s
a serious aphair.”
30
John Hovland
Assay Office
Hyder, Alaska
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