HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Established 1924
Published Ev ery Saturday at the Herald Building,
i, Second Avenue, Hyder, Alaska,
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Tnis newspaper is not connected in any ?nanner with any
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interested in the sale of mining shares and publishes no in
formation relative to local min ing development that is not be
lieved to be in full accord with fact.
Unemployment Plan
Widespread unemployment,
caused partially by generally
unsatisfactory economic con
ditions throughout the world
and partly as a result of the
replacement of hand labor by
machines, is giving industrial
ists as well as the unemployed
grave concern. Some manu
facturers already have adopted
forms of unemployment insur
ance, whereby workers tempo
rarily laid off receive stated
amounts during the period of
enforced idleness.
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A plan which is attracting
much attention just now is
that offered by the General
ctric Company to its em
fffyess, whereby they would
contribute one per cent of theii
wages to the insurance fund,
the company to contribute an
equal amount. Employees
would contribute so long as
they were earning 50 per cent
or mote of average full time
wages. When laid off they
would receive fifty per cent of
the wage earned when work
ing. The company would hold
the insurance fund in trust,
paying five per cent on the
money so held.
New rules for the better reg
ulation of employment have al
so been established by the
company, the idea being to dis
tribute the work among the
employees under various con
ditions in such manner as to j
avoid lay-offs as much as pos- i
sible. It is a good idea and the
results will be watched with in
terest *by both employers and
employed.
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Fireworks and Autos
Morning papers of every Ju
ly 5th formerly carried dis
tressing accounts of the killing
and injuring of marly persons,
mostly children, through the
explosion of fireworks in cele
bration of the Glorious Fourth
on the preceding day.
While casualties of this kind
still occur, their number has
been reduced to a small fract
ion of those in forfher years.
On the Fourth of July, 1905,
no less than 182 persons were
killed outright and 4,994 were
wounded. By 1910 the number
of killed had fallen to 131, in
1915 to 40, in 1928 to 11, while
last year only 7 deaths were
reported, and a few more this
year.
This illustrates the fact that
sometimes safety warnings fin
ally accomplish the desired re
sults, but the process of edu
cating the public to a realizat
ion of even the most obvious
dangers is a slow one. And it
seems that when one menace to
life and limb has been brought
under control a new one arises
to take its place. Today the
outstanding menace is the au
tomobile, which last year took
a toll of more than 30,000
killed and nearly a million in
jured fn the United States.
Most of these deaths and in
juries were as unnecessary as
the casualties from firework^
were 25 years ago. Will it take
25 years more to develop a
generation of careful automo
bile drivers?
Cold Germ is Found
The long-sought germ which
causes the common cold has
been found at last, according
to the claim of Dr. Pfeiffer of
the Maryland University
School of Medicine, who has
been on the trail of the elusive
pest for seven years.
What is still more important,
if it proves true, is that he has
developed a vaccine which de
stroys the germ and thus cures
the cold in short order. Dr.
Pfeiffer’s method will be fur
ther tested by physicians of
John Hopkins, and the result;
are awaited with interest.
The importance of such a dis
covery can be understood by
everyone, because few persons
are exempt from the discom
fort and often serious conse
quences which arise from
merely “catching cold.” It is
estimated that the value of
time lost from work in Ameri
can industry on account of
common colds is not less than
; two billion dollars a year. So
: if Dr. Pfieffer has really founc,
a scientific method of pravent
! ing this suffering and waste, he j
' will be entitled to high rank
I among the benefactors of man
kind.
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Just for Fun
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“Cheap money” does not
mean much to the fellow who
can’t borrow any.
We might beat the sugar tar
iff by stirring the coffee more
; thoroughly.
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i Militarists of all the powers
! are dissatisfied with the Lon
don treaty, so it must be an em
inently fair arrangement.
One consolation is that any
change in economic condition,.
; will probably be for the bet
| ter.
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It does seem rather tough
i that the new Lindbergh baby
must wait until 1940 to be of
ficially counted.
It is unlikely that European
resentment over our tariff will
lead to an embargo against
American tourists.
Posing as a doctor, an Indi- j
\ ana man fooled 25 women, i
Most of us would be satisfied j
I if we could only fool one.
It seems that all the unem-1
ployed in Texas are candidates"!
for office. iNineteen of them
are running for governor.
We really should celebrate
two annual Thanksgiving days
—the regular turkey day and
the day Congress adjourns.
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To our way of thinking the
bu'st love charm to hold a man
1 is a diploma from a first-class
cooking school.
| “Martial vacation” is a eu
j phonious term for whichever it
be, whether a temporary o
permanent separation.,
A scientist declares that the
human jaw is growing less and
will eventually disappear. In
which event folks will all re
semble Andy Gump.
A Kansas man has received
penitentiary sentences aggre-1
gating 223 years. But he’ll
probably get about a hundred
years off for good behavior.
—
Little Michael of •Rumania j
will probably not mind being j
demoted from king to grand
viovode, so long as his allow-1
ance of ice cream cones is notI
cut off.
An exchange sagely remarks i
that the United States Senate
attends to more business that
is none of its business than any
other-institution in the world”
WHAT’S NEW?
Liquid wax is fed evenly to a
celt pad on a new floor polish-j
ng implement.
Compressed air replaces oil i
illing in a newly devised
switch for high-tension electric
power plants.
Oil-fired high pressure boil-,
ers operating turbines are be- j
ng developed for propelling
large airplanes.
A new gas for refrigerators
s raid to*be relatively harm
ess even if inhaled.
By the use of electricity, two
crops of wheat are being
grown experimentally in green
houses by the Canadian gov
ernment, to speed the develop
ment of new varieties.
Scientists are investigating
the possibilities of using stain
less steel instead of glass in
building a large telescope.
INTERESTING NOTES
Washington, D. C., has a pop
ulation of 485,716, according
to the 1930 census, a gain of 11
per cent in 10 years.
Venezuela ranks next to the
United States in oil production,
with an annual output of about
100 million barrels.
The course of the Trinity riv
er at Dallas, Tex., is to be
changed to reclaim 10,000 ac
res of valuable land.
A snake 18 inches long was
found in the stomach of a cow
slaughtered in St. Louis.
Africa’s largest city is Cairo,
Egypt, with a population of
nearly a million.
The bones of Christopher Co
lumbus were removed from
Havana, Cuba, to Seville,
Spain, after the Spanish- Amer
ican War.
• - Col. Roberto Fierro recently
made a non-stop flight from
New York to Mexico City, ap
proximately 2,300 miles, in 16
hours and 35 minutes. Lind
bergh took 27 hours and 10
minutes to fly from Washing
ton to Mexico City.
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Chamber
of
Commerce
Hyder, Alaska
Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
Henry Sunshine and Miss Vi
olet Storm were arrigned in',
the same court in Chicago on a
charge of intoxication.
It is said that Palestine and
Egypt have a larger percent
age of blind persons than any
other part of the world. :
WATCHES! WATCHES!
Waltham 17 and 23 Jewels
Hamilton 19 and 21 Jewels
Elgin 7 and 15 Jewels
Wrist ivatches, Waltham, El
gin & Hofes, $12.50 to $25.00
Jewelry made to order, repair -
work Anything in jewelry fur
nished on short notice.
Crosley Radios on Hand. Come
In And Look Them Over.
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PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
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