The Hyder Weekly Herald
Established 1924
Published Saturday at the Her
ald Building in Hyder, Alaska.
Chas. F. Sandford
Owner and Publisher
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at the postoffice at Hyder,
Alaska, under the act of March
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The Disarmament Farce
A more convincing example
of national and international
hypocrisiy than ia provided by
the disarmament conference
can scarcely be imagined.
Although designed to bring
about reduction of armaments
and promote international
peace, almost every nation
represented is feverishly en
gaged in piling up arms, erect
ing forts, and building battle
ships. Our own United States
are not exempt from the charge
of talking peace and preparing
for war; although this country
is undoubtedly the most sincere
of all the nations in advocating
universal arms reduction and
world peace.
No finer proof of the utter
insincerity of the disarma
ment talk could be found 'than
was disclosed when Germany
and Russia declared their wil
lingness to destroy ail weapons
and forego all armaments ii
the other nations would do the
same. Not one of the Euro
pean powers would even con
i lider such a proposal, much
less take even a minor step
toward its realization.
But the statesmen and dip
lomats continue their floods oi
disarmament oratory and the
stark dishonesty and duplicity
and shameless hypocrisy of i1
goes unrebuked by the unheed
ing and unthinking ones who
have to pay for it all with live?
and money.
When will the masses of hu
manity awake and refuse tc
longer be cajoled into bearing
the mad burden of war arma
ments and the suffering and
scars of war because statesmen
politicians and industrialists
see in war and its concomitants
the greatest possibilities foi
national and personal aggrand
izement, and care noit a whil
for the suffering and sacrifices
it imposes upon others?
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Some Improvement, Anyway
Professor Laird of Colgate
after exhaustive researches
has determined that only aboul
3 percent of persons are per
fectly truthful at all times, and
cither psychologists generally
agree.
But even this shows an im
provement over the days of the
Psalmist, who declared that
“all men are liars.”
Anyway, it would be really
interesting to meet one of Dr.
Laird’s’ veracious 3 percent.
just for Fun
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Be sure you are right —
then check your facts and fig
ures.
There were just as many
careless drivers 30 years ago,
but the horses had more sense.
Perhaps the movies got the
idea for slow motion pictures
by watching a Scotchman
reach for his check-book.
Isn’t it funny that when
aliens learn to talk as we do
they think they are speaking
English ?
The Vancouver Sun says
violent exercise after 40 is es
pecially harmful if you do it
with a knife and fork.
It was a wise bird who said
a man is not poor because he
has nothing, buit because he
does nothing.
Sergeant: “If anything moves,
you shoot.”
Negro sentry: “Ya^suh, an’ if
Anything shoots ah moves.”
Faith is a quality that makes
a girl content after she fixes
the territory reflected in a van
ity case mirror.
What is usually termed “pro
aganda” is nothing else but the
either side presented so con
vincingly that it makes as1 mad.
We know a Scotchman who
uses only one spur when riding
horseback. He figures that the
the other side will go anyway.
“Daddy, will you get me a
drum for Christmas?” asked
little Bert.
“I’ll say not, you will always
be bothering me with your
noise,” replied “Tommy.”
“No, I won’t, Daddy, I prom
I’ll only beat it when you’re
asleep.”
A newspaper offering $1.00
cash for “embarrassing mom
ent” letters received the fol
lowing epistle:
“I work on an early night
shift in a steel plant. I got
home an hour early last night
and found another man with
my wife. I was very much
embarrassed. Please send me
$2.00 as my wife was also em
barassed.”
The editor, so we are told,
sent a check for $3.00, admit
ting the possibility that the
stranger too, might have been
embarrassed.
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
March 14, 1924
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W. C. Barron and Chas.
Schomberg have taken a con
tract to log for the Hyder Lum
ber Co., and are building a
camp about 30 miles down the
Canal.
On account of small-pox oc
curring in the larger centers of
British Columbia, the Provinc
ial Board of Health has for
warded a supply of vaccine to
Dr. Whillans of Stewart by
way of guarding against an
outbreak here.
Money was wired from
Francetothe Stewart Bank this
week to cover the payment due
April 1, to Wm. Hamilton and
Chas. Larson on the Spider
bond, taken last year by a
Belgian syndicate headed by
Jean Vanophen.
Teams are busy freighting in
supplies to the Independence,
which is to resume operatiolns
as soon as the new compressor
plant can be set up. The outfit
i includes about 30 tons of mat
erials and supplies.
A scow loaded with 1000 tons
of Premier second grade ore
nearly turned over near the
Premier dock Saturday, after
springing a leak. The ore
went to the bottom of the Can
al, making a loss of about $25
000, since the silicous ore now
going to Anyox is figured to be
worth $25 a ton.
. The Daly-Alaska will close
down April 1 while Manager
Sloan goes outside to confer
with the directors and outline
a policy for the development
of the three veins opened up in
the main tunnel.
MENTAL NUTS
Can You Crack Them?
Mental Telegraphy
Write any 3 figures, as 572
Reverse and subtract 275
297
Now tell me the left end fig
ure and I will tell the whole
number. It is 2. The whole
number is 297, as the center
figure will always be 9 and the
two ends will always add 9.
Can you prove it?—
Two-thirds of 6 is 9, Y-& of 12
is 7, Ys of 5 is 4, and 6 is V2 of
eleven.
(Answers next week)
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Answers to last problems
Cost of suit—
$45, $22.50, $.15, $7.50.
The sandwich payment—
1 cent and 7 cents.
FRANK A. METCALF
OVD. A MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
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Hyder Methodist Episcopal Church
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