The Hyd«r Weekly Herald
Established 1924
Published Saturday at the Her
ald Building in Hyder, Alaska.
Chas. F. Sandford
Owner and Publisher
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Alaska, under the act of March
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Chemicals In Warfare
The next war, if one should
unhappily involve the great
nations, will be fought largely
with chemicals, according to
many who have given study to
the development of deadly gas
es which will be available for
military purposes.
A recent publication said to
be of authoritative authorship
declares that while 30 asphyx
iating gases were known at the
beginning of the World War,
there are now more than 1,000,
including many varieties of
“blistering gases, choking gas
es, coughing gases, sneezing
gases, vomiting gases, tear
gases and suffocating smoke.”
Fumes heavier than air might
be spread over wide areas,
where they will linger for days
killing everything within their
deadly embrace. By means of
such ga'ses dropped from air
planes whole cities might be
wiped out in short order.
A recent writer sees in these
horrible possibilities a hope for
peace, on the theory that in fu
ture statesmen who consider
resorting to war will be re
strained from doing so by the
certain knowledge that these
awful means of destruction
would be brought into play to
destroy women and children as
well as fighting men.
That these mean's would be
used, in spite of all the treat
ies that might be made, can not
be doubted. “Necessity has no
law,” and this is especially
true of necessity in time of
war. Therefore, a great na
tion which goes to war in fu
ture must be willing to sub
ject its entire population to the
risk of wholesale slaughter, if
not extermination.
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Looking for More Graft 7
Press reports say the big
banking interests insist that
the country does not need mon
etary inflation, but credit in
flation.
The Big Boys apparently
overlook or disregard the fact
that this is what the Presi
dent has been trying un3uc- j
cessfully to bring about all the
time, in an obvious effort to
avoid monetary inflation, ex
cept, perhaps, as a last resort.
And isn’t it passing strange
that these same high priests of
finance themselves refuse to
help expand credit by extend
ing loans to busines/J, except
upon terms that few businesses
can meet, and excuse them
selves on the plea that they
must “protect” their deposit
ors?
They were not so careful
about protecting their deposit
ors when it came to selling
them foreign bonds of doubt
ful value but on which they,
themselves made a nice fat
profit.
Obviously unwilling to do
any inflating of credit them
selves, they evidently expect
the government to do it. But
we will bet our suspenders
they have a scheme fixed up
to make Uncle Sam pay them
for letting him do it.
And he probably will do
it without a murmur, for Uncle
is still so blind to the ways of
the money sharks that he does
not object to making the nat
ion’s money and then paying
interest to the bankers for let
ting him use it. In that way
only, so the bankers tell him,
can he keep his own credit
good.
Just for Fun
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An English law prohibits a
man from marrying his mother
in-law. That is our idea of the
height of useless legislation.
A lot of birds should realize
that the man who makes a
show of himself seldom gets
rich from the gate receipts.
Hubbie: “Just think of those
government men doing away
with thousand's of gallons of
liquor a week!”
Wifie: “Really, I don’t see
how their stomachs stand it?”
Some of our townsite garden
ers say they find it hard to tell
the difference between weeds
and young plants. The sure
way, of course, is to pull them
all up. If they come up again
they are weeds.
Teacher: “Bennie, what is an
island?”
Bennie: “Please, ma’am, it’s
a place you can’t leave without
a boat.”
The storekeeper was showing
his Scotch friend through his
store. When they came to the
knife counter, he presented
him with-a pocket knife. “But,
remember,” he said, “you must
give me a penny, so it will not
cut our friendship.” The Scot
searched through his pockets
but could find nothing smaller
than a nickel. This the store
keeper could not change.
“Well,” said the Scotchman,
“I guess you’ll just have to
keep the nickel and give me
four more knives.”
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
February 15, 1924.
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Hyder will have a minstrel
show on the night of February
27, given by local talent. They
say it’s going to be good.
The 1924 development pro
gram of the Daly Alaska is
already well under way. The
number of men employed has
been increased to nine and new
track is being taken up for the
long tunnel.
Pat. Daly plans to take in
supplies over the snow to the
Ibex and Homestake proper
ties, which he and C. D. Carter
recently bonded to the Day in
terests of Idaho. Daly plans
to put into effect an ambitious
development program as soon
as the snow goes.
Work on the No. 3 tunnel at
the Indian mine is making good
progress. The purpose of this
is to cut at an additional depth
of 210 feet the No. 5 and No. 6
ore bodies opened in No. 1 tun
nel, which it is expected will
be encountered 600 feet from
the portal, and will give a ver
tical depth of 500 on the ore.
Work on the Riverside has
produced satisfactory results
during the winter. Develop
ment work underground totals
over 4,000 feet, including
drifting, sinking and crosscut
ting. This has opened up two
'substantial ore bodies and
proved considerable ore, with
backs of over 400 feet. Six
teen men have been employed
steadily throughout the winter.
MENTAL NUTS
Can You Crack Them?
If one mile of fencing enclos
es 40 acres, how many acres
will two miles enclose?
There are one, five and ten- i
cent pieces. In how many dif
ferent ways can a quarter be
changed?
A hired a team to drive to a
city 12 miles distant, and re-;
turn for $4.00. At a cross road |
6 miles distant he took a pass-1
enger train to the city and back i
to the cross roads. How much \
should he pay?
Travelers between Hyder
and Stewart are much relieved
by the fact that the masses of
heavy ice andsnow which hung
over the road practically all
came down during the heavy
rain and wind storm Wednes
day night.
(Answers next week)
Answers to last problems
The Two Farms —
$1,200 and $4,800.
The Man and the Stores —
8% cents.
FRANK A, METCALF
am ft MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR .
JUNEAU ALASKA
Hyder *
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* Evening Service at 7:30 p. m. • i
* Everyone is cordially invited to •
* the services. • !
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