The Hyder Weekly Herald
Established 1924
Published Saturday at the Her
ald Building in Hyder, Alaska.
Chas. F. Sandford
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ROOSEVELT’S TASK
There is something truly sub
lime and awe-inspiring in the
tremendous battle President
Roosevelt is waging against
that mighty social and econ
omic disorganization we term
the depression.
It is indeed a task that would
break the heart of almost any
man; fraught asit’is with cease
less anxiety and labor, to say
nothing of the multiform ele
ments of discouragement be
setting it at every turn. Scarce
ly one man in a million would
care to undertake it, however
capable and wise he might be,
and only a man of remarkable
discernment would be capable
of visualizing such situation
with sufficient clarity to per
ceive the necessary methods
for its solution. Only one of
superlative energy, under
standing, indomitable courage
and unshakable optimism
could be able to gather to
gether and set into motion the
vast and untried forces which
he is invoking bo overcome the
demoralization left behind by
baneful interests in panic after
a wild debauch of greed and
plunder which all but wrecked
the nation.
further adding to the dif
ficulties of his tremendous
task is the fact that he is not
only compelled to overcome the
devastation and near-chaos of
the depression, but is also
forced to battle against the
greed-inspired and desperately
determined opposition of those
same selfish and powerful in
terests, which eeek to further
glut their slimy maws at the
expense of the nation, and the
suffering of its people.
The Wall Street money
changers and predatory wealth
generally is throwing every
possible obstacle in his way and
employing every artifice of
cunning and malice to make
h\is task as difficult and inef
fectual as possible.
Even many of those whom he
might expect to be his friends
and to assist him in the mighty
effort to restore the nation to
economic health and stability
have shamefully forsaken him
and fled Hke cowards in dark
ness, leaving him to carry on
the bitter struggle alone, as
best he may.
Yet, withal, this remarkable
man somehow manages to keep
his courage high and presses
forward undauntedly toward
the goal of final (success that he
envisions somewhere in the
future, and knows can be
reached if there is will and
courage to do so; although he
admits with still greater cour
age that he cannot clearly see
the way.
America is surely most for
tunate in having found such a
magnificiently inspired and
endowed leader to guide her
destinies in these days of her
greatest national travail.
Just for Fun
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It has been remarked' that
not all of our presidents were
born in a log cabin, but every
one of them was born a bare
foot boy.
“Do you ever play with bad
little boys, Willie?”
“Sure I do.”
Why, Willie! Why don’t
you play with good little boys?”
“Their mothers won’t let
them.”
Little Annie (to lady friend)
“Come in and see our new
baby.”
Lady: “Thank you. Annie,
but I will wait until your moth
er is better.”
Annie: “Oh, you needn’t be
afraid; it isn’t catching.”
Teacher: “Johnny, what are
the seasons?”
Johnny: “You mean in the
United States?”
Teacher: “Well, er, yes, of
course.”
Johnfiy: “Baseball and foot
ball.”
The Civilized Way
In savage tribes where skulls
are thick and primal passions
rage, they have a system, sure
and quick, to cure the blight
of age.
For when a native’s youth
has fled and years have taken
his pep and vim, the savage
raps him on the head and puts
an end to him.
But we, in this enlightened
age, are built of nobler stuff,
and so we look with i-ighteous
rage on deeds1 so harsh and
rough.
For when a man grows old
and gray and weak and short
of breath, we simply take his
job away and let him starve
| to death.—George E. Phair.
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
May 9, 1924
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In spite of their still being
six ior eight inches of snow
around his home in Stewart,
W. B. George gathered rhu
barb from his garden the first
of the week.
Assessment work on the May
flower group on Glacier Creek,
downed by H. P. Gibson of
Stewart, is producing some fine
ore, showing gray copper and
native silver.
Rev. Edwin Moss will hold
next Sunday evening his last
service in St. Mark’s Church,
Stewart, before his successor
arrives.
Six men are now employed
on the Glacier Creek property
north of Stewart and the work
is being speeded up. Ship
ments of air pipe arrived ion
both the Prince George and
Cardena. The latter vessel
also brought equipment for
the blacksmith shop.
Nellie Cashman, Alaska s
most famous woman pioneer
and sourdough of sourdoughs,
was an arrival on the Prince
George. Miss Cashman left
her mining operations 'in the
Koyukuk district, up near the
Arctic Circle, last fall and has
put in the winter traveling in
the States. While in Wash
ington, she called on President
Coolidge. Miss Cashman went
into the Dease Lake country at
the time of the Cassiar excite
ment in 1875 and has since
been identified with the North,
and particularly Alaska.
Residents of the district are
awaiting with great interest
the decision of Judge T. M.
Reed involving title to the
Alaska-Ccmstock group on
Texas Creek, in which A. M.
Durback and Emil Davis claim
an interest through an alleged
agreement with Joe Jackson,
one of the original locators.
MENTAL NUTS
Can You Crack Them?
The Boat Problem—
Three men and their wives
wish to cross a river; the boat
will carry but two; no man
shall be left alone with an
other’s wife.
How Much Had She?—
A lady found $2, and then
had five times as much as she
would have had had she lost
$2 instead.
(Answers next week)
Answers to last problems
The Fish Question—
15 inches'. Head 3, tail 3,
body 9 inches.
The Clock Hands?—
5 minutes, 27 and 12-44 sec
onds past 1 o’clock.
FRANK A. METCALF
CIVIL & MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
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PORILAND CANAL LODGE
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P. S. Jack, Secretary
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Fourth Thursday in Stewart
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