The Hyder Weekly Herald
Established 19*24
Published Saturday at the Her
ald Building in Hyder, Alaska.
Chas. F. Sand ford
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Simple Peace Formula
The plea of President Roose
velt that all nations agree to
keep their armed forces within
their own borders .:s the most
sensible and simple suggestion
for international peace that
has so far been offered in the
long babel of tongues concern
ing the abolition of war.
If such an agreement could
be reached it would, if consci
entiously adhered to, end war
at once, for the simple reason
that nothing can be achieved
by war without invasion ot en
emy territory. It is true that
even with such an agreement in
effect nations might shoot at
each other across their bord
ers but without invasion it
would gain them no more than
if they lined up on their re
spective frontiers and made
faces at each other.
President Roosevelt’s simple
f ormula, if backed up by a rig
orous economic boycott against
any nation which broke the
non-invasion rule, would un
questionably end war and all
me disastrous evus it entails.
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A Regreitable Situation
The statutory inhibition
against employment of any but
bona-fide citizens of the Unit
ed States cn the local unem
ployment relief programs cr.e
creates a most regrettable situ
ation in the case of many local
residents who have lived in
Alaska most of their lives,
have devoted their best efforts
toward its development and up
building, and in all other re
spects save possession of citi
zenship are a? much entitled to
the benefits of government un
employment relief work as the
veriest native of the land. In
deed it may be said that they
in some instances are even
more worthy of this govern
mental beneficence than are
some actual citizens, particu
larly that shitfle 3 and irre
sponsible element who habit
ually squander their substance
in times of prosperity; who
make no improvement in their
condition regardless of the ex
tent of their earnings, and are
at all times potential candi
dates for public charity if over
taken by hard times or physic
al incapaciation.
As compared to this class of
| habitually unprogressive cit
j izens, the upright, industrious
! alien resident who strives with
| all his abilities to get ahead
| and provide for himself insur
| a nee against indigency is to our
way of thinking far more en
titled to consideration in situ
ations such as the present, even
| though he may have unthink
ingly neglected to acquire citi
zenship.
The fact remains, however,
that the first duty of the nat
ion is to those who are its own
children or have become such
by adoption, hence it is right
that those who give to it their
fullest fealty should be the
first to receive its favors and
assistance in times of need,
regardless of the effects on
those who are content to take
year after year all the nation
allows to the alien within its
borders and still neglect or re
fuse to give it their fullest al
legiance.
However much we may sym
pathize with our alien residents
in the present situation, both
we and they should remember
that they alone are to blame
j for failure to perform their
j proper duty to the land which
I has provided them with virtu
ally every advantage enjoyed
| by our own nationals and has
j asked in return for its generos
Jity only their true allegiance
: and support of its institutions.
Just for Fun
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The bonds of matrimony are
not worth much, either, if the
interest isn’t kept up.
Some of our worthy citizens
who ought to be making a gar
den are satisfied to call a spade
a spade and let it go at that.
Nations inclined to flout the
League of Nations should be '
warned by what has happened
to Japan.
We poor folks still have one
advantage—we are never kid
napped for ransom.
Uncle Sam is not really a
Shylock. Especially in the
matter of those foreign debts
he would be quite satisfied
with a half-ounce of flesh.
Americanism: Paying 531
men to run the country and
then letting one man do the
whole job.
Chicago’s Century of Prog
ress exposition will illustrate
the advance of civilization,
which has exchanged the bow,
arrow and tomahawk for the
machine gun and “pineapple.”
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
I From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
March 7, 1923.
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Chris Gallagher left Thurs
day for a visit in Vancouver.
J. R. Sheahan is now night
chef at the Silver Grill. Walter
Blanton, proprietor of the Grill,
j left on the steamer Jefferson
for a visit in Seattle,
Early in the week there was
four feet of water on the Sal
mon valley road at Seven-mile
bar and all stages and freight
t teams were held up for a day
or two.
Word has been received from
S. P. Fitzgerald in the south
that he has raised sufficient
funds to complete the present
development program at the
Titan group and as a result
Titan units have been with
drawn from the market.
Two important events have
transpired for the Titan-Sal
mon River Syndicate this week.
One is that by crosscutting at
:the mine, Jack Fitzgerald has1
l not only definitely determined j
the position of the main ore |
shoot but has opened up a
large body of good milling ore.
How large this is has not been
ascertained, as he dud not con
tinue far enough to determine,
but it is penetrated 8 feet and
assays from various places run
from $20 to $40 in gold. The
tunnel is in 170 feet.
INTERESTING NOTES
Accidents of one sort or an- j
other injured one person out of !
every 14 in this country last i
year.
The first patent granted on
this continent was to Samuel
Winslow, of the general court
of Massachusetts in 1641, for a
method of making salt.
The new 2,000,000 candle
power Lindbergh beacon at
Chicago makes a revolution
I every 30 seconds and sends
forth a 500-mile shaft 'of light.
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The most influential econom
ic treatise ever written was
Adam Smith’s “An Inquiry into
the Nature and Causes of the
Wealth of Nations.”
In a recent month New Zea
land exported more than $40,
000 worth of rabbit skins.
The world’s telephone sys
tems have in use more than
100,000,000 miles of copper
were.
The volume of wrater which
flows from the Amazon river
into the Atlantic ocean is more
than 1,000,000 cubic feet a sec
ond.
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FRANK A. METCALF
CIVIL i MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
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Hyder
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Evening Service at 7:30 p. m.
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