April 28, 1949 (8 pages)

2 Nevada City Nugget, Thursday, April 28, 1949 ~ 305 Broad Street, Nevada City—Telephone 36 A legal newspaper, as defined by statute toe Oe ROBERT H. and DONALD W. WRAY, Publishers KENNETH W. WRAY, Editor and Advertising Manager Member California Newspaper Publishers Association Weblished every Thursday at Nevada City, California, and entered ms'enatter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevada City under Met: ef Congress, March 3, 1879. ! 5 SUBSCRIPTION RATES @me year outside county (in advance) ..-...--: PRO Saul sd $3.00 Apear in county (in advance) -..2....s.cc egsecenecevecedeecennsee 2.50 Wetir months (in advance) _..-.2.--222222.-csecececee te secseeeennanceeeecceeneees 1.00 Gee month (in advance) ._.2..2.--cccc--neenencaeeene cece ce seenndeceseenenceense 30 4ANOTHER WAY TO HELP LOCAL BUSINESS Did you ever spend a few minutes in the lobby of the postoffice and watch the packages of mail order _ goods come in? Did you know the money represented in those packages never returns to Nevada City except for the amount of postage the mail order companies pay to Zhe local postoffice to deliver their catalogues? Did you know Nevada county and Nevada City oes not collect one red cent in taxation from the mail order firms? Did you know that there is not one family employed sr maintained in Nevada county by the major mail order firms? Let’s keep City and Nevada county prosperous. It is a crime that Nevada county, which produced more mineral wealth than any other county in the United States, should show no benefits for that wealth. Nevada county, one of the highest producers of wealth in the state of California, is today one of the poorest counties in the state. For all its production of wealth Nevada county has mo decent roads, no adequate schools and no cultural aspects to show for it. WOULD YOU SELL YOUR COUNTRY’S FUTURE FOR $140.85? (This is a contributed editorial) ‘The arm-chair economists are at it again—the boys ef the “hot-stove’” league who always have the answer. Once again the target is the American business @ystem—and the crime, it seems, is the ability of that ssystem to make enough profit to keep this country out of industrial red—keep our people working and living mm the style they are accustomed to—and keep this «ountry growing and improving and progressing. Underneath it all, of course, is the somewhat timeworn ideological crusade to “spread the wealth.” Let’s do a little analyzing, just as average Ameri€ans, using just average common sense. Let's suppose that we take all the profit—all the met profit of American business for 1948, after the anillions upon millions of taxes were paid. The figure is about 20 billions. Nine per cent of the total national income of 220 billions. A lower percentage than in the boom year of 1929. A lower percentage than in the high production year of 1941. But let’s take all the net profit—the whole 20 billions—and distribute it in equal shares among the 142 wnillion people in our country. Let’s give every man, woman and child $140.85. That’s what it amounts to. Then let’s cancel all the programs of expansion and wehabilitation of U. S. railroads—programs due to cost hundreds of millions. And let’s struggle along with what we have. ‘Let’s quit investing a hundred million dollars to bring out one brilliant, better, faster, more luxurious line of automobiles—and go on, year after year, drivting ‘the same old cars. i tLet’s scrap the expansion program of the oil indus&ry, a program scheduled to cost billions, and quit ‘worrying about gas for our automobiles and oil to theat our homes. _ And let’s quit paying dividends to the 5 million ashareholders in American business, you who have inwested your savings and expect a fair return for your umoney. £xaggeration, you say? Not at all. It’s just plain, simple arithmetic. In 1948—U. S. Business put 19 billion dollars into jplant, industrial, farm and mining improvement. « -For what? To strengthen the guarantee that this country will remain in its coveted position of world industrial leadership. To make profits enough to protect the U. S. worker and his job. To keep business ‘ton a solid, safe, sound base—and reduce the risk of future recession and loss. -. s that what you want for your country’s future and your future? Or will you sell out for $140.85— #nd stop progress? . Think over this -@over seriously! “If you want this country thrown on the wreckage qpile of other countries—the quickest way to do it is to throttle profits—the legitimate driving force back of mur progress—the progress of every last one of us! loose talk des profits. Think it Gome men get more fun out of grinding their axe than in burying the hatchet. "The worst thing about success is that it won't stay Those ‘movie cowboys would catch the rustlers if they didn’t stop so often to strum their HOOVER COMMISSION BLASTS V. A. Veterans and veterans’ organizations may be surprised to learn that the veterans administration ‘got one of the’ worst lambastings for inefficiency and extravagance handed out by the Hoover commission. / All veterans’ organizations are interested in legislation affecting veterans and in better adminisration of the laws for the benefit of the veterans. So, of course, are the veterans themselves. The Hoover commission study which was submitted fo congress says that the leadership in the veterans administration “has been of poor quality’. The report continues: ‘‘The veterans administration has consistently elevated people into higher positions from its own ranks as a reward for length of service rather than demonstrated ability. “Supervisors resist any reor yanization of their activties which would reduce the number of people under them. “Simple jobs are split into infinitesimal parts, thereby creating a higher rank for the supervisor. Since the number of people under him determines his rank, a supervisor is unwilling to take any action to improve operations if it reduces the number of people involved.” The report claims that 7000 supervisors could be eliminated, saving $28,000,000 a year. RECOMMENDS CHANGES Veterans administration workers complained about lack of opportunity, infringement on personal privacy, autocratic and arbitrary rules even as to the kind of clothes they can wear and rules which forbid supervisors to eat with subordinates. The use of military titles, publicly scrapped in 1946, has been resumed and this has had a damaging affect on morale. When I served on the commitWashington Notes By Congressman Clair Engle =) tee on veterans affairs we were very much disturbed over the fact that the top admnistrative personnel in the veterans administration was largely made up of military men who retained their fank and titles. Apparently the situation has not been remedied. In order to correct these defects, the Hoover commission report recommends that greater power be given the administrator, the elimination of branch offices which it says will save $1,900,000 annually in rent and $16,500,000 in salaries,‘ and an increase ef 10 per cent in productivity (resulting from better personnei relations), which will save $29,200,600 a year. These savings, totaling $75,700,000 a year the report says’ “are not unreasonable, but long overdue’’. Copies of the Hoover commission report together with the study on which the report is based are available at my, office to any veteran and veterans’ organizations writing me for them, HEAT INCREASES WEAR Automobile tire wear increases with temperature. The California State Automobile association es-’ timates that at 100 degrees temperature the rate of wear under, average driving conditions is five times greater than at 40 degrees WALK WITH CARE ‘Safe walking, under present day traffic conditions, requires its own degree of skill and alertness, points out the California State Automobile association, which notes that it’s usually the casual walker who becomes the traffic casualty. : LOOSE FAN BELT A loose fan belt may slip on the fan pulley and cause the engine. of your car. to overheat, says the California State Automobile association. _ Just Wonderin’ I Wonder if of all the traits Of which man is possessed, The one which we call loyalty Might well be deemed the best. ® This is loyalty week—that is, . heard a radio personality saying that it was. However, so many statements heard over the air waves are afterward retracted, I can’t be entirely sure; I can only hope that this is, Loyalty Week. I Wonder if loyalty is not the most precious and desirable of -all gifts to man. Loyalty is not restricted it may be used in our every business and social contact and exercised in all times and places. It forms the basis for all ‘trust worthy human relationships and transactions—it is a noble ingredient without which man becomes an outcast from society, unloved, distrusted and unsung. Loyalty like charity begins at home. Shakespeare recognized this fact when he wrote, ‘This above all, to thine own self be true And it must follow as the night the day Thou can’st not then be false to any man.” Loyalty taught in the home becomes an intregral part of character, it extends beyond the confines of home and loved ones to embrace the school, teachers and school mates. Loyalty to one’s town, city or community brings about inevitably that spirit of cooperation which results in community growth and development. Loyalty is the heart of man should extend to cover the interests of his own state and his own country. It should include an altruistic interest and understanding of the world in which we live and a lively understanding and sympathy for the human family in toto. During this Loyalty Week, it might be well to examine the state of our own portion of that commodity known as personal loyalty and see if it is in good working order. In all of our human relationships, in the home, in the community, to our state, to our flag, to our nation and to all of our worthy institutions, are we truly loyal? If the answer is “‘yes,’’ we ned not be, ashamed or afraid. The loyal man believes in the thingsto which he has pledged allegiance and he walks with assurance through the confusion and conflict of his time, serene in his faith that the changes going on about him, will ultimtaely insure the betterment in world affairs for which he is consistently striving. Loyalty to our fundamental principals of right and wrong are being challenged in the world of today and it is essential that we re-examine them in the light of reason and renew our faith in that which is good and true. There is no more worthy tribute which one can pay to a man than to say, “‘he is loyal.’’ No more discreditable a trait in human nature than disloyalty. So indeed in the light of this new singing springtime it is well to look into that deep pool of the heart and ask of ourselves, “‘are we truly loyal in all of the commitments we have made.” If the answer is “yes,’’ we can join the great throng of loyal souls whose course is ever upward and whose goal is a shining portal over which is inscribed the one word, Peace. : ! ot —Adeline Merriam Conner’ . Nevada County Long Ago Floy-Margaret Reynolds 22 YEARS AGO Following the sale of the Empire mites to the Newmont company, the North Star . mine in Grass Valley was also acquired by the corporation. The Empire and North Star oompanies were consolidated and were to be operated as one unit under the name of. the EmpireStar Consolidated mines. Acquisition of the Empire properties was by outright purchase while the North Star purchase was said to have been by stock transfer. Fred W. Nobs and Arthur B. Foote were to continue as managing directors at the two properties. H. W. Hartman was to be installed as resident engineer. Elmer Fischer opened up a new store _in the Morgan Powell building in Nevada City. Four makes of radios were stocked, Spartan, Kellogg, Fada and Graybar and Mr. Fischer was prepared to do all kinds of electrical contracting and radio repairing. The students of the Nevada City high school expressed their appreciation for the excellent cooperation of Mr. Isensee, principal, in the building of the tennis court. Mr. Isensee besides planning the court and arranging the finamcing, also donated much of his time in actual labor. Richard Dix in ‘‘Moran of the Marines’’ and Tom Mix in “Hello Cheyenne” were playing at the Nevada Theater. General Foch funeral ceremony in Paris was the subject of the news reel. 50 YEARS AGO A house occupied by Emil Bauer at Scott’s Flat and built years before by his nephew, Nevada Hartung, was completely destroyed by fire. Among the children who took part in a young people’s masquerade. at Odd Fellows hall in Nevada City were Myrtle Kitts, [) Clifford “Webber, Elsie Gray, EvLino Swart, Vesta Walling, erett Hartung, Anna Hieronimus, Lizzie Filewellen, ima Eastin, Elsie Richards, Mabel Dougherty, Anna Hicks, Mary Hosking, Wiltse Ford, Lyda McKenna Mildred Gallagher, -Lynette Webber, Verda Shurtleff, Minnie Smith, Martin Maher, Ivey Osborne, Andy Gifford, Lottie Ogden, Marguerite Mills, Ernest Werry, Tom Bullard, Evelyn Wills, Howard Douglass, Lester Kirkham, Louise Lawrence, Charles Clarke, Edwin Gribble, Alicia Grimes and Robert Carr. John Richards and Mrs. Marcella Mitchell of Nevada. City were married at the Congregational parsonage by the Rev. J. Phoebe -Pecor, Clara Wills, Hartung, Ethel Ivey, Hannah Sims. Miss Folra Hicks, and Thomas Richards attended the couple who planned to make their home on Broad street near the New York hotel, Edward. H. Moore of Nevada City, murderer of Police Officer William Kilroy, was captured by the Sheriff of Contra Costa county near Martinez and returned to Nevada City under guard for trial. He had been the object of a strenuous search by Sheriff Getchell’s posse for several weeks. 75 YEARS AGO The Blue Tent school near Nevada City opened for the new year under the charge of Miss May Hawley. Senator Charles Rent, resident of Nevada City, was on a visit to his boyhood home in Pittsburgh, Pa. It was rumored he was planing to open a first class grocery store and butcher shop upon his return. Due to a disagreement between the gas company and the Nevada City board of trustees over the price of gas furnished the city for street lamps, the streets of the city were dark. Eq FP. Marsellus, a long time resident of Nevada City and newly appointed U. S. marshal, was disposing of his property here and moving to San Francisco, GEMS OF THOUGHT DIGNITY True dignity is never gained by place, and. never lost when honors are withdrawn. ——Massinger Thought must be made better, and human life more fruitful, for the divine energy to move it onward and upward. ' ——Mary Baker Eddy dignity abides alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can -still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart. ——Wordsworth Fa TE ata Never esteem anything as of True with him advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect, : Marcus Aurelius Ths, Be Charles Scott Haley ‘I thought I would do him proud,” he said, “‘because I know he likes cigars. So before f left New York, . bought him a hundred Havanas. Henry Clay, I think they were,‘and they set me back a lot of money. When I arrived there, I found him surrounded by cigars— those damn Colombians. He offered me some at once, which I smoked. “Well,” thinks I, “If this is the sort of cigar you like, I shall jolly well keep those Havanas myself.” And . brought them home and smoked them myself. Which all goes to prove, that there is no accounting for tastes. ALASKAN INTERLUDE The year before I entered the army, . was leasing tungsten ground in the famous ‘‘Potato Patch” at Atolia. I had been caved upon in a shallow underground working, and had helped to bury another chap who was not so lucky, and I had sold all my product at a top price just before the market dropped. Consequently, when I received a telegram from Charles Janin, of San Francisco, asking me if I would go as his assistant to examine some placer ground on the upper Tanana River in Alaska, . jumped at the chance. We took the Shasta Limited to Seattle, and then en'gaged passage on the coast steamer Jefferson. The 'voyage up, through the Inside Passage was uneventful enough, and very pleasant. We stopped at Vancouver, at Prince Rupert and at Ketchikan, and finally arrived at Juneau. There we had a chance to inspect the great glory hole on Treadwell Island, which has since been flooded by the breaking in of the Pacific Ocean, and then went on to Skagway. The trip is one which has . been described by many travellers, and is not lacking ‘in interest; the most impressive sight of the whole voyage was standing-off the Taku glacier and watching the grinding masses of ice drop off from heights of several hundred feet into the waters of the inlet. Arrived at Skagway, we took the train over the White Horse. The most astonishing thing to me was the vivid blue of the lakes, which resembled nothing so much as the deep indigo of a picture post card. It nust be remembered that this was in the month of June. From White Horse, we boarded a little stern wheel river steamer which was pushing a barge loaded with freight down the Pelly River to the Yukon and to awson. _ At Selkirk, where the river joins wtih the Lewes to make the Yukon, . stopped to take a few photographs. One view that presented itself was of a wrinkled old Indian crone—another of a magnificent white Husky dog. The old lady wanted fifty cents’ before she would pose; the dog wanted nothing, so I took two pictures of the dog, who was really worth while looking at. We steamed on “beside the marge of Lake Lebarge”’ and eventually landed at Dawson, where we changed ¢teamers for the lower river. We spent several days near Dawson while waiting, and covered the dredges on the main Klondike of the Canadian company, as well as making side trips on Discovery and Bonanza creeks. Our host at this time was a fine upstanding Irishman by the name of Boyle, who was. superintendent of the company, and was later to become famous in the World War as commander of a machine gun company and also as personal body-guard to Queen Marie of Rumania. We had regarded him as a very mild chap, considerably henpecked at home—perhaps this very training had fitted him to be a hero when he broke loose. Dawson at that time had been shorn of her past iglory; had dwindled from twenty thousand riproaring inhabitants to a more handful of less than two thousands, who dozed and dreamed in the bright northern sun of the glories of the past. Our next step was down the river to its confluence with the Tanana and up that river to Fairbanks. This was at that time a fairly bustling little city of some five thousand souls, dependent on mining for its support. At that time the government railroad was . building, and of course its character changed completely later on. We spent a few days in looking over the territory and the workings on Clary Creek and Coarse Gold and on Fairbanks Creek itself. One afternoon as our jitney driver was bringing us home over the divide of Clary Creek, we were frantically signalled to stop by a very agitated gentleman of Slavonic extraction. We slowed down in front of his cabin and asked what he wanted. ‘ : With monotonous regularity, he kept regularity, he kept repeating, over and over again, ‘He shoot de voman in de rear! He shoot de voman in de rear!’’ This seeming of interest, we went into the house, where an American prospector asked us if we could take a patient to the hospital in Fairbanks. On assuring . him that we would, he brought out a fairly hefty lady, also Slav, who had apparently been wounded by a .22 rifle bullet in the soft portion of her posterior. Things now seemed to piece together, and the mystery was further cleared by the victim herself, who talked with freedom and abandon all the fifteen miles to Fairbanks. It would seem that she had encouraged one lover more han another—which is not unusual with ladies who are dependent for their living on the spending ability of their entourage—and the cast-off suitor came in that morning with blood in his eye and a squirrel rifle in his hand, with the avowed intention of shooting his rival. The action from this time was very dramatic, according to the lady’s testimony. (to be continued) The funny thing about ‘a caricature is that it looks more like you do than you do. Two pints make make a quartet. . . Ercan @ quart, and two pints usually Gow Diceer’s Tran , y Va. ae

2 Nevada City Nugget, Thursday, April 28, 1949 ~ 305 Broad Street, Nevada City—Telephone 36 A legal newspaper, as defined by statute toe Oe ROBERT H. and DONALD W. WRAY, Publishers KENNETH W. WRAY, Editor and Advertising Manager Member California Newspaper Publishers Association Weblished every Thursday at Nevada City, California, and entered ms'enatter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevada City under Met: ef Congress, March 3, 1879. ! 5 SUBSCRIPTION RATES @me year outside county (in advance) ....-.....--: PRO Saul sd $3.00 Apear in county (in advance) -...2.......s.cc egsecenecevecedeecennsee 2.50 Wetir months (in advance) _...-.2.--222222.-csecececee te secseeeennanceeeecceeneees 1.00 Gee month (in advance) ._.2...2..--cccc--neenencaeeene cece ce seenndeceseenenceense 30 4ANOTHER WAY TO HELP LOCAL BUSINESS Did you ever spend a few minutes in the lobby of the postoffice and watch the packages of mail order _ goods come in? Did you know the money represented in those packages never returns to Nevada City except for the amount of postage the mail order companies pay to Zhe local postoffice to deliver their catalogues? Did you know Nevada county and Nevada City oes not collect one red cent in taxation from the mail order firms? Did you know that there is not one family employed sr maintained in Nevada county by the major mail order firms? Let’s keep City and Nevada county prosperous. It is a crime that Nevada county, which produced more mineral wealth than any other county in the United States, should show no benefits for that wealth. Nevada county, one of the highest producers of wealth in the state of California, is today one of the poorest counties in the state. For all its production of wealth Nevada county has mo decent roads, no adequate schools and no cultural aspects to show for it. WOULD YOU SELL YOUR COUNTRY’S FUTURE FOR $140.85? (This is a contributed editorial) ‘The arm-chair economists are at it again—the boys ef the “hot-stove’” league who always have the answer. Once again the target is the American business @ystem—and the crime, it seems, is the ability of that ssystem to make enough profit to keep this country out of industrial red—keep our people working and living mm the style they are accustomed to—and keep this «ountry growing and improving and progressing. Underneath it all, of course, is the somewhat timeworn ideological crusade to “spread the wealth.” Let’s do a little analyzing, just as average Ameri€ans, using just average common sense. Let's suppose that we take all the profit—all the met profit of American business for 1948, after the anillions upon millions of taxes were paid. The figure is about 20 billions. Nine per cent of the total national income of 220 billions. A lower percentage than in the boom year of 1929. A lower percentage than in the high production year of 1941. But let’s take all the net profit—the whole 20 billions—and distribute it in equal shares among the 142 wnillion people in our country. Let’s give every man, woman and child $140.85. That’s what it amounts to. Then let’s cancel all the programs of expansion and wehabilitation of U. S. railroads—programs due to cost hundreds of millions. And let’s struggle along with what we have. ‘Let’s quit investing a hundred million dollars to bring out one brilliant, better, faster, more luxurious line of automobiles—and go on, year after year, drivting ‘the same old cars. i tLet’s scrap the expansion program of the oil indus&ry, a program scheduled to cost billions, and quit ‘worrying about gas for our automobiles and oil to theat our homes. _ And let’s quit paying dividends to the 5 million ashareholders in American business, you who have inwested your savings and expect a fair return for your umoney. £xaggeration, you say? Not at all. It’s just plain, simple arithmetic. In 1948—U. S. Business put 19 billion dollars into jplant, industrial, farm and mining improvement. « -For what? To strengthen the guarantee that this country will remain in its coveted position of world industrial leadership. To make profits enough to protect the U. S. worker and his job. To keep business ‘ton a solid, safe, sound base—and reduce the risk of future recession and loss. -. s that what you want for your country’s future and your future? Or will you sell out for $140.85— #nd stop progress? . Think over this -@over seriously! “If you want this country thrown on the wreckage qpile of other countries—the quickest way to do it is to throttle profits—the legitimate driving force back of mur progress—the progress of every last one of us! loose talk des profits. Think it Gome men get more fun out of grinding their axe than in burying the hatchet. "The worst thing about success is that it won't stay Those ‘movie cowboys would catch the rustlers if they didn’t stop so often to strum their HOOVER COMMISSION BLASTS V. A. Veterans and veterans’ organizations may be surprised to learn that the veterans administration ‘got one of the’ worst lambastings for inefficiency and extravagance handed out by the Hoover commission. / All veterans’ organizations are interested in legislation affecting veterans and in better adminisration of the laws for the benefit of the veterans. So, of course, are the veterans themselves. The Hoover commission study which was submitted fo congress says that the leadership in the veterans administration “has been of poor quality’. The report continues: ‘‘The veterans administration has consistently elevated people into higher positions from its own ranks as a reward for length of service rather than demonstrated ability. “Supervisors resist any reor yanization of their activties which would reduce the number of people under them. “Simple jobs are split into infinitesimal parts, thereby creating a higher rank for the supervisor. Since the number of people under him determines his rank, a supervisor is unwilling to take any action to improve operations if it reduces the number of people involved.” The report claims that 7000 supervisors could be eliminated, saving $28,000,000 a year. RECOMMENDS CHANGES Veterans administration workers complained about lack of opportunity, infringement on personal privacy, autocratic and arbitrary rules even as to the kind of clothes they can wear and rules which forbid supervisors to eat with subordinates. The use of military titles, publicly scrapped in 1946, has been resumed and this has had a damaging affect on morale. When I served on the commitWashington Notes By Congressman Clair Engle =) tee on veterans affairs we were very much disturbed over the fact that the top admnistrative personnel in the veterans administration was largely made up of military men who retained their fank and titles. Apparently the situation has not been remedied. In order to correct these defects, the Hoover commission report recommends that greater power be given the administrator, the elimination of branch offices which it says will save $1,900,000 annually in rent and $16,500,000 in salaries,‘ and an increase ef 10 per cent in productivity (resulting from better personnei relations), which will save $29,200,600 a year. These savings, totaling $75,700,000 a year the report says’ “are not unreasonable, but long overdue’’. Copies of the Hoover commission report together with the study on which the report is based are available at my, office to any veteran and veterans’ organizations writing me for them, HEAT INCREASES WEAR Automobile tire wear increases with temperature. The California State Automobile association es-’ timates that at 100 degrees temperature the rate of wear under, average driving conditions is five times greater than at 40 degrees WALK WITH CARE ‘Safe walking, under present day traffic conditions, requires its own degree of skill and alertness, points out the California State Automobile association, which notes that it’s usually the casual walker who becomes the traffic casualty. : LOOSE FAN BELT A loose fan belt may slip on the fan pulley and cause the engine. of your car. to overheat, says the California State Automobile association. _ Just Wonderin’ I Wonder if of all the traits Of which man is possessed, The one which we call loyalty Might well be deemed the best. ® This is loyalty week—that is, . heard a radio personality saying that it was. However, so many statements heard over the air waves are afterward retracted, I can’t be entirely sure; I can only hope that this is, Loyalty Week. I Wonder if loyalty is not the most precious and desirable of -all gifts to man. Loyalty is not restricted it may be used in our every business and social contact and exercised in all times and places. It forms the basis for all ‘trust worthy human relationships and transactions—it is a noble ingredient without which man becomes an outcast from society, unloved, distrusted and unsung. Loyalty like charity begins at home. Shakespeare recognized this fact when he wrote, ‘This above all, to thine own self be true And it must follow as the night the day Thou can’st not then be false to any man.” Loyalty taught in the home becomes an intregral part of character, it extends beyond the confines of home and loved ones to embrace the school, teachers and school mates. Loyalty to one’s town, city or community brings about inevitably that spirit of cooperation which results in community growth and development. Loyalty is the heart of man should extend to cover the interests of his own state and his own country. It should include an altruistic interest and understanding of the world in which we live and a lively understanding and sympathy for the human family in toto. During this Loyalty Week, it might be well to examine the state of our own portion of that commodity known as personal loyalty and see if it is in good working order. In all of our human relationships, in the home, in the community, to our state, to our flag, to our nation and to all of our worthy institutions, are we truly loyal? If the answer is “‘yes,’’ we ned not be, ashamed or afraid. The loyal man believes in the thingsto which he has pledged allegiance and he walks with assurance through the confusion and conflict of his time, serene in his faith that the changes going on about him, will ultimtaely insure the betterment in world affairs for which he is consistently striving. Loyalty to our fundamental principals of right and wrong are being challenged in the world of today and it is essential that we re-examine them in the light of reason and renew our faith in that which is good and true. There is no more worthy tribute which one can pay to a man than to say, “‘he is loyal.’’ No more discreditable a trait in human nature than disloyalty. So indeed in the light of this new singing springtime it is well to look into that deep pool of the heart and ask of ourselves, “‘are we truly loyal in all of the commitments we have made.” If the answer is “yes,’’ we can join the great throng of loyal souls whose course is ever upward and whose goal is a shining portal over which is inscribed the one word, Peace. : ! ot —Adeline Merriam Conner’ .

Nevada County Long Ago Floy-Margaret Reynolds 22 YEARS AGO Following the sale of the Empire mites to the Newmont company, the North Star . mine in Grass Valley was also acquired by the corporation. The Empire and North Star oompanies were consolidated and were to be operated as one unit under the name of. the EmpireStar Consolidated mines. Acquisition of the Empire properties was by outright purchase while the North Star purchase was said to have been by stock transfer. Fred W. Nobs and Arthur B. Foote were to continue as managing directors at the two properties. H. W. Hartman was to be installed as resident engineer. Elmer Fischer opened up a new store _in the Morgan Powell building in Nevada City. Four makes of radios were stocked, Spartan, Kellogg, Fada and Graybar and Mr. Fischer was prepared to do all kinds of electrical contracting and radio repairing. The students of the Nevada City high school expressed their appreciation for the excellent cooperation of Mr. Isensee, principal, in the building of the tennis court. Mr. Isensee besides planning the court and arranging the finamcing, also donated much of his time in actual labor. Richard Dix in ‘‘Moran of the Marines’’ and Tom Mix in “Hello Cheyenne” were playing at the Nevada Theater. General Foch funeral ceremony in Paris was the subject of the news reel. 50 YEARS AGO A house occupied by Emil Bauer at Scott’s Flat and built years before by his nephew, Nevada Hartung, was completely destroyed by fire. Among the children who took part in a young people’s masquerade. at Odd Fellows hall in Nevada City were Myrtle Kitts, [) Clifford “Webber, Elsie Gray, EvLino Swart, Vesta Walling, erett Hartung, Anna Hieronimus, Lizzie Filewellen, ima Eastin, Elsie Richards, Mabel Dougherty, Anna Hicks, Mary Hosking, Wiltse Ford, Lyda McKenna Mildred Gallagher, -Lynette Webber, Verda Shurtleff, Minnie Smith, Martin Maher, Ivey Osborne, Andy Gifford, Lottie Ogden, Marguerite Mills, Ernest Werry, Tom Bullard, Evelyn Wills, Howard Douglass, Lester Kirkham, Louise Lawrence, Charles Clarke, Edwin Gribble, Alicia Grimes and Robert Carr. John Richards and Mrs. Marcella Mitchell of Nevada. City were married at the Congregational parsonage by the Rev. J. Phoebe -Pecor, Clara Wills, Hartung, Ethel Ivey, Hannah Sims. Miss Folra Hicks, and Thomas Richards attended the couple who planned to make their home on Broad street near the New York hotel, Edward. H. Moore of Nevada City, murderer of Police Officer William Kilroy, was captured by the Sheriff of Contra Costa county near Martinez and returned to Nevada City under guard for trial. He had been the object of a strenuous search by Sheriff Getchell’s posse for several weeks. 75 YEARS AGO The Blue Tent school near Nevada City opened for the new year under the charge of Miss May Hawley. Senator Charles Rent, resident of Nevada City, was on a visit to his boyhood home in Pittsburgh, Pa. It was rumored he was planing to open a first class grocery store and butcher shop upon his return. Due to a disagreement between the gas company and the Nevada City board of trustees over the price of gas furnished the city for street lamps, the streets of the city were dark. Eq FP. Marsellus, a long time resident of Nevada City and newly appointed U. S. marshal, was disposing of his property here and moving to San Francisco, GEMS OF THOUGHT DIGNITY True dignity is never gained by place, and. never lost when honors are withdrawn. ——Massinger Thought must be made better, and human life more fruitful, for the divine energy to move it onward and upward. ' ——Mary Baker Eddy dignity abides alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can -still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart. ——Wordsworth Fa TE ata Never esteem anything as of True with him advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect, : Marcus Aurelius Ths, Be Charles Scott Haley ‘I thought I would do him proud,” he said, “‘because I know he likes cigars. So before f left New York, . bought him a hundred Havanas. Henry Clay, I think they were,‘and they set me back a lot of money. When I arrived there, I found him surrounded by cigars— those damn Colombians. He offered me some at once, which I smoked. “Well,” thinks I, “If this is the sort of cigar you like, I shall jolly well keep those Havanas myself.” And . brought them home and smoked them myself. Which all goes to prove, that there is no accounting for tastes. ALASKAN INTERLUDE The year before I entered the army, . was leasing tungsten ground in the famous ‘‘Potato Patch” at Atolia. I had been caved upon in a shallow underground working, and had helped to bury another chap who was not so lucky, and I had sold all my product at a top price just before the market dropped. Consequently, when I received a telegram from Charles Janin, of San Francisco, asking me if I would go as his assistant to examine some placer ground on the upper Tanana River in Alaska, . jumped at the chance. We took the Shasta Limited to Seattle, and then en'gaged passage on the coast steamer Jefferson. The 'voyage up, through the Inside Passage was uneventful enough, and very pleasant. We stopped at Vancouver, at Prince Rupert and at Ketchikan, and finally arrived at Juneau. There we had a chance to inspect the great glory hole on Treadwell Island, which has since been flooded by the breaking in of the Pacific Ocean, and then went on to Skagway. The trip is one which has . been described by many travellers, and is not lacking ‘in interest; the most impressive sight of the whole voyage was standing-off the Taku glacier and watching the grinding masses of ice drop off from heights of several hundred feet into the waters of the inlet. Arrived at Skagway, we took the train over the White Horse. The most astonishing thing to me was the vivid blue of the lakes, which resembled nothing so much as the deep indigo of a picture post card. It nust be remembered that this was in the month of June. From White Horse, we boarded a little stern wheel river steamer which was pushing a barge loaded with freight down the Pelly River to the Yukon and to awson. _ At Selkirk, where the river joins wtih the Lewes to make the Yukon, . stopped to take a few photographs. One view that presented itself was of a wrinkled old Indian crone—another of a magnificent white Husky dog. The old lady wanted fifty cents’ before she would pose; the dog wanted nothing, so I took two pictures of the dog, who was really worth while looking at. We steamed on “beside the marge of Lake Lebarge”’ and eventually landed at Dawson, where we changed ¢teamers for the lower river. We spent several days near Dawson while waiting, and covered the dredges on the main Klondike of the Canadian company, as well as making side trips on Discovery and Bonanza creeks. Our host at this time was a fine upstanding Irishman by the name of Boyle, who was. superintendent of the company, and was later to become famous in the World War as commander of a machine gun company and also as personal body-guard to Queen Marie of Rumania. We had regarded him as a very mild chap, considerably henpecked at home—perhaps this very training had fitted him to be a hero when he broke loose. Dawson at that time had been shorn of her past iglory; had dwindled from twenty thousand riproaring inhabitants to a more handful of less than two thousands, who dozed and dreamed in the bright northern sun of the glories of the past. Our next step was down the river to its confluence with the Tanana and up that river to Fairbanks. This was at that time a fairly bustling little city of some five thousand souls, dependent on mining for its support. At that time the government railroad was . building, and of course its character changed completely later on. We spent a few days in looking over the territory and the workings on Clary Creek and Coarse Gold and on Fairbanks Creek itself. One afternoon as our jitney driver was bringing us home over the divide of Clary Creek, we were frantically signalled to stop by a very agitated gentleman of Slavonic extraction. We slowed down in front of his cabin and asked what he wanted. ‘ : With monotonous regularity, he kept regularity, he kept repeating, over and over again, ‘He shoot de voman in de rear! He shoot de voman in de rear!’’ This seeming of interest, we went into the house, where an American prospector asked us if we could take a patient to the hospital in Fairbanks. On assuring . him that we would, he brought out a fairly hefty lady, also Slav, who had apparently been wounded by a .22 rifle bullet in the soft portion of her posterior. Things now seemed to piece together, and the mystery was further cleared by the victim herself, who talked with freedom and abandon all the fifteen miles to Fairbanks. It would seem that she had encouraged one lover more han another—which is not unusual with ladies who are dependent for their living on the spending ability of their entourage—and the cast-off suitor came in that morning with blood in his eye and a squirrel rifle in his hand, with the avowed intention of shooting his rival. The action from this time was very dramatic, according to the lady’s testimony. (to be continued) The funny thing about ‘a caricature is that it looks more like you do than you do. Two pints make make a quartet. . . Ercan @ quart, and two pints usually Gow Diceer’s Tran , y Va. ae