July 1, 1949 (8 pages)

a 2—The Nevada City Nugget, Friday, July 1, 1949 Frau Goup Diecer’s Charles Scott Haley j ‘Ah knows wheah theahs two good acres of bottom 305 Broad Street, Nevada City—Telephone 36 land that Ah can make a down payment on, suh. An’ get mea span of good mules. Fum now on, Ah intends A legal newspaper, as defined by statute ROBERT H. and DONALD W. WRAY, Publishers to look out foh me.” KENNETH W. WRAY. Editor and Advertising Manager “How about a wife, Seymour? You're not married, Member California Newspaper Publishers Association Published every Tuesday and Friday at Nevada City, California, and entered as matter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevada City under Act of Congress, March 38, 1879. : are you?” “Nossuh. But Ah knows a high yaller gall what's SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year outside county (in advance) ...--.--2----+-----2-sep-eeceee+ $3.00 eee 2.50 One year in county (in advance) ..--.-.-.---:--22--+-2seceeeeeceeeceeeeeee ees as escent ceases 1.00 Four wionthe (in advance) .2:.5.2.26.-0 2150s oo. One month (in advance) .2.2.--22 cose ccs clei seca cesaee sen cene sce ea cee aeee » 30 willin’.”’ Peace be to him! I have no doubt but what in Mississippi, he is‘a landowner now and one of the pillars of his church. He certainly played an excellent game of poker, because it was not the first time that he had brought me most of the company payroll for safe keeping. AARON A. SARGENT We finally arrived at Charleston, South Carolina, and went to Columbia, at Camp Jackson, for discharge. Here I noticed a strange phenomenon. Right after receiving Death came, as it must to all men, many many years ago for Aaron_Augustus Sargent, printer, statesman, minister plenipotentiary. Yet so great was his personality that this Sunday the third generation of his contem discharge those colored boys went home in uniform, because Uncle Sam’s clothes were all they owned. But hardly one of them but what had bought wound stripes ) _ poraries will gather to dedicate a stone, bronze and marble momument to his memory. Death brings oblivion to the desert lives of so many of us. To Sargent it gave immortality in the annals of Nevada county, the state, and té some degree the nation. Sargent won his immortality, not by one deed of heroism on some bloody useless battlefield, not by one great discovery, creation or accident; but by a lifetime devoted to the task at hand. Whether the task was humble or sublime it had his every effort. Sargent is remembered, not for one thing, but for accumulation of years of duty to his career. SOCIALISM BRINGS DISILLUSIONMENT An article in The Atlantic Monthly observes ‘that socialism has brought a good deal of disillusionment to Britain. The coal mines are an especially apt example. Absenteeism is as frequent and disputes as great as under private management. The slight increase in output per man-shift is attributed to progress that has been made in copying American production methods, rather than any increase in worker morale. The article goes on to say, “Nationalization, to the ordinary miner down in the pit, has always meant that the industry would become his own. Now the miners claim it is not nearly the same thing to discover it is the nation’s industry. In fact, they claim that the old private owner was always present to be conferred with —he was not the helples agent of a remote and soulless board in London.” Can anyone believe that American coal miners would have made such remarkable progress in bettering their lot if we had had a socialized industry? Under private enterprise, the mine union has grown enormously powerful. Management is always present to confer with union heads over wages, working conditions, and any other controversial point. The result is that the average American coal miner earns some $75 a week, and many earn $100 and upwards. Living standards in our typical mining and chevrons to sew on their sleeves. Very few of the dark gals that were waiting at home had to be content with less than a returning corporal, or sergeant, at least. When the time came to be mustered out, . was detailed to return to San Francisco, where . had enlisted. But it was up to me to arrange the detail of discharge for all of my command. . was ‘delighted to receive from Sergeant Just Wonderin’ . Wonder at the fairy tales That many still believe, Quinliven a sort of round robin, written and signed by all the white non-coms in the outfit, which I still treasure to this day. Also another letter from those under whom I served. I Wonder if their authors ‘wrote Intending to deceive; Or did they write for fame and kale, In ages long ago, Oh well, we find that nice tall tales By repetitions grow. I thought it would be wise to line up my colored boys for one last formation before dismissing them to their ‘train. I gave them what advice . could—told them to Human beings have been gullible ever since they began forget that in France they. had been waited upon by white walking upon two feet; even now in this age of so called women, or else, as they returned to their homes in materialism, almost any tall story will find believers. Georgia and Tennessee, their lives would be very short Strange, isn’t it? indeed. . told them that . had appreciated their. faithful and loyal service, and that if . ever came through the Now we are not so ready to believe tales that come to us from other nations and other peoples; no American South on my travels, that . wished any of them recogof today places credence in the mythologies of Greece, nizing. me would come up and speak to me. And here . Rome, Egypt or the Scandanavian countries, of course made a social offer. “You can’t tell,”’ said I, “but what you may meet me not. Those ancient stories of gods, godesses, fays and when you need a five spot some time.” nymphs were discredited long ago, but we harbor quite Immediately after formation was dismissed, no less a number similar productions of wild imagining; they may be poor things, but they are our own and oh, how than four of my old orderlies came up and assured me that they needed that five right now. They would pay we do cling to them! it back—oh, yes! All they wanted was: thé “borrow” of Still we are not as gullible as we used to be; it beit. Oh, yes, suh. . hooves us to wake up and apply reasonable doubt ‘to “Well, boys,” . said, thinking fast, “If I loan you five sensational claimants to our credulity. Let the debunkdollars apiece you'll owe it to me and have to pay it ing go on, I say, even if it sweeps Washington’s cherry back, won't you?” tree and the exploits of many a Rowan into the discard. In a letter received recently and written by a Bay Region friend, he asserts that much of the sensationalism which has grown up upon the Mother Lode might well be forgotten. I believe that is true, for in repetitions they have grown from more to more and the author of the towns would seem unbelievable to the British miners. latest thriller which has to do with the olden trails flies The Atlantic’s article also said, “In Britain today such loose ends and gives free reign to his imagination. old-fashioned ideas as enterprise, efficiency, and thrift The exploits of Joaquin Murietta and Lola Montez are at a dangerous discount. The British community has have ben greatly overdone as have the careers of many come to put other economic and social ideals a long way _ ahead of productivity.” That always happens when soanother character, real or imaginary of those fabulous cialist and communist ideologies take over. All the people gold rush days whose memory we are now commemorat become. poorer— and the workers become porest of all. ing. BUILDING Which leg—come to think of it, DID move first? Leg agony-of analysis and indecision. And it was never able to walk another step. Completely paralyzed by its insoluble intellectual problem, it remained immobile and slowly starved to death. In building your community, your Chamber of Com waiting for me as . went to my train. One big corporal, of Zulu blood, who had been my mainstay, Corporal William Richmond, who was color bearer for the battal lion, came up to me and wrung my hand. Suh, Ah caint tell you how sorry we is to lose vou. You jest been a father to us Tennessee cullud boys.” I appreciated the compliment—and said good-bye to allowances . ‘had coming, including the traditional sixty dollars for a suit of civilian clothes, and withdrew all my funds trom a Washington bank in the form of a cashier's check. And all the three day journey home, being in uniform, I was regaled at almost every stop with coffee, sand wiches, doughnuts and what have you, by patriotic groups of women who were at every train as the return. ing boys passed through. AndI arrived home with ten cents still in m ket! (to be continued) ie _before—always build for success. Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speak Asked the meaning of suffrage, est or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the —Fuller government of thy passions and affections. Finally, education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in Thereby I saved sixteen dollars and they were four dollars ahead. I hated to leave my white noncoms, who had faithfully served me in many ways, and when J said good-bye to Sergeant Quinliven, I gave him a little French automatic which I had bought in Nevers. As a very foolish commodation in an hour or two, and gave him the dollar. for everything or complete solution of every problem. Faith with progressive effort, efforts a little better than going fast. wont owe me anything, and you won't have to bother about paying me back.”’ And before they could think that one over too long, I shucked out a dollar apiece and turned for my quarters. I took train for Chicago, and as I had run out of ‘petty cash, I had it in mind to call up a friend and have him come down to the train and cash a check for me. He came down, but we were so busy discussing old times that it was not until . was standing on the observation platform waving good-bye to him that I remembered that I had woolly bad men “‘lie'down for an aeon or two.’” Why forgotten all about the check. not? _ ago Taking stock, I found —Adeline Merriam Conner that I still had one dollar and ten cents. I had to ask the porter for some special ac merce, or any other it is not necessary you see a reason The tongue, being in a wet place, is likely to slip when “Well, suppose . give you a dollar apiece. Then you my children. ' Going through Washington, I drew whatever pay and houses, the men who constructed mile upon mile of And—success is not a matter of efficiency and talent. flumes, ditches, and tunnels and labored earnestly to It’s just plain willingness to work and keep going through filch gold from auriferous gravels and quartz rock. thick and thin. This reminds us of a story. A centipede, I knew a number of genuine forty niners when I was scurrying about proficiently on its 100 legs. One day it a youngster and there wasn’t one among them who said, was halted by a questioner who said: “Centipede, how ‘them thar hills,” not one of them who had in his early do you walk around so proficiently while maneuvering adventures packed two guns or wore a chip upon his no less than 50 pairs of legs? When you start to walk, shoulder. There are always two sides to every question, which leg do you move first >”’ so I'm pleading with writers of western fiction to stress . ‘Never had this question accurred to the centipede. the careers of our empire builders and let the wild and ‘No. 8? Leg No. 14? The centipede worked itself into an . yessuh, suah. We aims to pay it back. Suah, sun. It is high time for some one to write intelligently and ruling had decreed that only commissioned officers could with authority about the men and women who founded retain their sidearms, he was delighted. About a hundred of my colored boys were lined up and our golden empire of the west; they were not dark Success is built on very small margins. The faster browed, desperadoes on shooting expeditions bent and runner in the world isn’t more than five per cent faster perhaps that is the very reason why accounts of their than scores of ordinary runners. The difference between constructive labors is not unduly popular. a great race horse and a good race horse is only a few However, during this time of centennial celebration, minutes or seconds. No man can be successful more than . would like to see the wild men and women of gold rush a minute, the minutes in which he completes a successful days, shoved into the background. Let’s consider the real job; but the minute the applause dies down, the world heroes who conquered the west. The founders of towns raises the ante on you and says, ‘‘Let’s see you do it again and cities the builders of homes, churches and school —and better.” an applicant for American citizenship gave this answer: “When you don’t vote you suffer, That's suffrage”. ITCHING FOR ACTION IN THE OMINICAN FIGHTING Every man, must educate himself; his. books and teachers are but helps; the work is his.—Daniel Webster HAVANA—Cubans demonstrate in front of Dominican revolutionist headquarters in Havana as they wait to enlist for fighting against President Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. The official Dominican radio station said, June 22, that Trujillo will denounce You cannot dream yourself into a character; you. must any nation that aided in the attemped airborne invasion earlier in = < : , z = (? jhammer.and forge one for yourself.» .. Froude + Va

a 2—The Nevada City Nugget, Friday, July 1, 1949 Frau Goup Diecer’s Charles Scott Haley j ‘Ah knows wheah theahs two good acres of bottom 305 Broad Street, Nevada City—Telephone 36 land that Ah can make a down payment on, suh. An’ get mea span of good mules. Fum now on, Ah intends A legal newspaper, as defined by statute ROBERT H. and DONALD W. WRAY, Publishers to look out foh me.” KENNETH W. WRAY. Editor and Advertising Manager “How about a wife, Seymour? You're not married, Member California Newspaper Publishers Association Published every Tuesday and Friday at Nevada City, California, and entered as matter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevada City under Act of Congress, March 38, 1879. : are you?” “Nossuh. But Ah knows a high yaller gall what's SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year outside county (in advance) .....--.--2----+-----2-sep-eeceee+ $3.00 eee 2.50 One year in county (in advance) ...--.-.-.---:--22--+-2seceeeeeceeeceeeeeee ees as escent ceases 1.00 Four wionthe (in advance) .2:.5.2.26.-0 2150s oo. One month (in advance) ..2.2.--22 cose ccs clei seca cesaee sen cene sce ea cee aeee » 30 willin’.”’ Peace be to him! I have no doubt but what in Mississippi, he is‘a landowner now and one of the pillars of his church. He certainly played an excellent game of poker, because it was not the first time that he had brought me most of the company payroll for safe keeping. AARON A. SARGENT We finally arrived at Charleston, South Carolina, and went to Columbia, at Camp Jackson, for discharge. Here I noticed a strange phenomenon. Right after receiving Death came, as it must to all men, many many years ago for Aaron_Augustus Sargent, printer, statesman, minister plenipotentiary. Yet so great was his personality that this Sunday the third generation of his contem discharge those colored boys went home in uniform, because Uncle Sam’s clothes were all they owned. But hardly one of them but what had bought wound stripes ) _ poraries will gather to dedicate a stone, bronze and marble momument to his memory. Death brings oblivion to the desert lives of so many of us. To Sargent it gave immortality in the annals of Nevada county, the state, and té some degree the nation. Sargent won his immortality, not by one deed of heroism on some bloody useless battlefield, not by one great discovery, creation or accident; but by a lifetime devoted to the task at hand. Whether the task was humble or sublime it had his every effort. Sargent is remembered, not for one thing, but for accumulation of years of duty to his career. SOCIALISM BRINGS DISILLUSIONMENT An article in The Atlantic Monthly observes ‘that socialism has brought a good deal of disillusionment to Britain. The coal mines are an especially apt example. Absenteeism is as frequent and disputes as great as under private management. The slight increase in output per man-shift is attributed to progress that has been made in copying American production methods, rather than any increase in worker morale. The article goes on to say, “Nationalization, to the ordinary miner down in the pit, has always meant that the industry would become his own. Now the miners claim it is not nearly the same thing to discover it is the nation’s industry. In fact, they claim that the old private owner was always present to be conferred with —he was not the helples agent of a remote and soulless board in London.” Can anyone believe that American coal miners would have made such remarkable progress in bettering their lot if we had had a socialized industry? Under private enterprise, the mine union has grown enormously powerful. Management is always present to confer with union heads over wages, working conditions, and any other controversial point. The result is that the average American coal miner earns some $75 a week, and many earn $100 and upwards. Living standards in our typical mining and chevrons to sew on their sleeves. Very few of the dark gals that were waiting at home had to be content with less than a returning corporal, or sergeant, at least. When the time came to be mustered out, . was detailed to return to San Francisco, where . had enlisted. But it was up to me to arrange the detail of discharge for all of my command. . was ‘delighted to receive from Sergeant Just Wonderin’ . Wonder at the fairy tales That many still believe, Quinliven a sort of round robin, written and signed by all the white non-coms in the outfit, which I still treasure to this day. Also another letter from those under whom I served. I Wonder if their authors ‘wrote Intending to deceive; Or did they write for fame and kale, In ages long ago, Oh well, we find that nice tall tales By repetitions grow. I thought it would be wise to line up my colored boys for one last formation before dismissing them to their ‘train. I gave them what advice . could—told them to Human beings have been gullible ever since they began forget that in France they. had been waited upon by white walking upon two feet; even now in this age of so called women, or else, as they returned to their homes in materialism, almost any tall story will find believers. Georgia and Tennessee, their lives would be very short Strange, isn’t it? indeed. . told them that . had appreciated their. faithful and loyal service, and that if . ever came through the Now we are not so ready to believe tales that come to us from other nations and other peoples; no American South on my travels, that . wished any of them recogof today places credence in the mythologies of Greece, nizing. me would come up and speak to me. And here . Rome, Egypt or the Scandanavian countries, of course made a social offer. “You can’t tell,”’ said I, “but what you may meet me not. Those ancient stories of gods, godesses, fays and when you need a five spot some time.” nymphs were discredited long ago, but we harbor quite Immediately after formation was dismissed, no less a number similar productions of wild imagining; they may be poor things, but they are our own and oh, how than four of my old orderlies came up and assured me that they needed that five right now. They would pay we do cling to them! it back—oh, yes! All they wanted was: thé “borrow” of Still we are not as gullible as we used to be; it beit. Oh, yes, suh. . hooves us to wake up and apply reasonable doubt ‘to “Well, boys,” . said, thinking fast, “If I loan you five sensational claimants to our credulity. Let the debunkdollars apiece you'll owe it to me and have to pay it ing go on, I say, even if it sweeps Washington’s cherry back, won't you?” tree and the exploits of many a Rowan into the discard. In a letter received recently and written by a Bay Region friend, he asserts that much of the sensationalism which has grown up upon the Mother Lode might well be forgotten. I believe that is true, for in repetitions they have grown from more to more and the author of the towns would seem unbelievable to the British miners. latest thriller which has to do with the olden trails flies The Atlantic’s article also said, “In Britain today such loose ends and gives free reign to his imagination. old-fashioned ideas as enterprise, efficiency, and thrift

The exploits of Joaquin Murietta and Lola Montez are at a dangerous discount. The British community has have ben greatly overdone as have the careers of many come to put other economic and social ideals a long way _ ahead of productivity.” That always happens when soanother character, real or imaginary of those fabulous cialist and communist ideologies take over. All the people gold rush days whose memory we are now commemorat become. poorer— and the workers become porest of all. ing. BUILDING Which leg—come to think of it, DID move first? Leg agony-of analysis and indecision. And it was never able to walk another step. Completely paralyzed by its insoluble intellectual problem, it remained immobile and slowly starved to death. In building your community, your Chamber of Com waiting for me as . went to my train. One big corporal, of Zulu blood, who had been my mainstay, Corporal William Richmond, who was color bearer for the battal lion, came up to me and wrung my hand. Suh, Ah caint tell you how sorry we is to lose vou. You jest been a father to us Tennessee cullud boys.” I appreciated the compliment—and said good-bye to allowances . ‘had coming, including the traditional sixty dollars for a suit of civilian clothes, and withdrew all my funds trom a Washington bank in the form of a cashier's check. And all the three day journey home, being in uniform, I was regaled at almost every stop with coffee, sand wiches, doughnuts and what have you, by patriotic groups of women who were at every train as the return. ing boys passed through. AndI arrived home with ten cents still in m ket! (to be continued) ie _before—always build for success. Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speak Asked the meaning of suffrage, est or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the —Fuller government of thy passions and affections. Finally, education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in Thereby I saved sixteen dollars and they were four dollars ahead. I hated to leave my white noncoms, who had faithfully served me in many ways, and when J said good-bye to Sergeant Quinliven, I gave him a little French automatic which I had bought in Nevers. As a very foolish commodation in an hour or two, and gave him the dollar. for everything or complete solution of every problem. Faith with progressive effort, efforts a little better than going fast. wont owe me anything, and you won't have to bother about paying me back.”’ And before they could think that one over too long, I shucked out a dollar apiece and turned for my quarters. I took train for Chicago, and as I had run out of ‘petty cash, I had it in mind to call up a friend and have him come down to the train and cash a check for me. He came down, but we were so busy discussing old times that it was not until . was standing on the observation platform waving good-bye to him that I remembered that I had woolly bad men “‘lie'down for an aeon or two.’” Why forgotten all about the check. not? _ ago Taking stock, I found —Adeline Merriam Conner that I still had one dollar and ten cents. I had to ask the porter for some special ac merce, or any other it is not necessary you see a reason The tongue, being in a wet place, is likely to slip when “Well, suppose . give you a dollar apiece. Then you my children. ' Going through Washington, I drew whatever pay and houses, the men who constructed mile upon mile of And—success is not a matter of efficiency and talent. flumes, ditches, and tunnels and labored earnestly to It’s just plain willingness to work and keep going through filch gold from auriferous gravels and quartz rock. thick and thin. This reminds us of a story. A centipede, I knew a number of genuine forty niners when I was scurrying about proficiently on its 100 legs. One day it a youngster and there wasn’t one among them who said, was halted by a questioner who said: “Centipede, how ‘them thar hills,” not one of them who had in his early do you walk around so proficiently while maneuvering adventures packed two guns or wore a chip upon his no less than 50 pairs of legs? When you start to walk, shoulder. There are always two sides to every question, which leg do you move first >”’ so I'm pleading with writers of western fiction to stress . ‘Never had this question accurred to the centipede. the careers of our empire builders and let the wild and ‘No. 8? Leg No. 14? The centipede worked itself into an . yessuh, suah. We aims to pay it back. Suah, sun. It is high time for some one to write intelligently and ruling had decreed that only commissioned officers could with authority about the men and women who founded retain their sidearms, he was delighted. About a hundred of my colored boys were lined up and our golden empire of the west; they were not dark Success is built on very small margins. The faster browed, desperadoes on shooting expeditions bent and runner in the world isn’t more than five per cent faster perhaps that is the very reason why accounts of their than scores of ordinary runners. The difference between constructive labors is not unduly popular. a great race horse and a good race horse is only a few However, during this time of centennial celebration, minutes or seconds. No man can be successful more than . would like to see the wild men and women of gold rush a minute, the minutes in which he completes a successful days, shoved into the background. Let’s consider the real job; but the minute the applause dies down, the world heroes who conquered the west. The founders of towns raises the ante on you and says, ‘‘Let’s see you do it again and cities the builders of homes, churches and school —and better.” an applicant for American citizenship gave this answer: “When you don’t vote you suffer, That's suffrage”. ITCHING FOR ACTION IN THE OMINICAN FIGHTING Every man, must educate himself; his. books and teachers are but helps; the work is his.—Daniel Webster HAVANA—Cubans demonstrate in front of Dominican revolutionist headquarters in Havana as they wait to enlist for fighting against President Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. The official Dominican radio station said, June 22, that Trujillo will denounce You cannot dream yourself into a character; you. must any nation that aided in the attemped airborne invasion earlier in = < : , z = (? jhammer.and forge one for yourself.» .... Froude + Va