July 15, 1949 (8 pages)

2—The Nevada City Nugget, Friday, July 15, 1949 Just Wonderiw’ ] Wonder about scientists ’s Praw Gop DiceerHal ey Charles Scott And all the things they do, To make this world a better place 305 Broad Street, Nevada City—Telephone 36 A legal newspaper, as defined by statute ROBERT H. and DONALD W. WRAY, Publishers KENNETH W. WRAY. Editor and Advertising Manager Member California Newspaper Publishers Association Published every Tuesday and Friday at Nevada City, California, and entered as matter of the sécond class in the postoffice at Nevada City cs under Act pf Congress, March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year outside county (in advance) -.--.-.-------2---+-ce-eeeeeseeeeeeeee $3.00 One year in county (in advance) -..-.:--------+-2-----seeeeeessseceeeeeeeettts 2.50 e eeeeecseees eeecneee ce eeeeceecenenss Four months (in advance) -.22.---------4ececcce One month (in advance) IT’S A GOOD FEELING For me and likewise you. In the meantime, I was having a wonderful time. Evlf and myse ery evening, a group of Peruvian ¢ronies This would have been a sorry world indeed, had it not would drift down to Morris Bar, the American bar of been for the men of science, who have, in all ages worked Lima, and have a few Pizco punches. These are calcuof with the laws of evolution for the betterment of man. lated to raise the standard of optimism in the coldest ride and True scientists have been men of indomitable deterbloods. Then we would call for one or two cars, mination and unshakable courage—they had to be, if up and down and around the Exposition—the widest and they were to function in a society that invariably was most beautiful street in Lima— for half an hour or more nds of the “agin ‘em. To every innovation proposed by the patient in the cool of the evening. Then into the grou Lima, ebout scientist, the can’t chorus began to chant. For some reapark itself, and to the best dining room in enson or other, the human animal fears and hates change; nine. Here a group of us would sit until eleven o'clock _ of joying a wonderfully good meal of great variety, and he shrinks from change in his modes and manners enjoyed. living, he dreads to exchange his old opinions for new down with some of the best wines I have ever fences in a ones and so every discovery of science, the stand patters All the time, I would be trying to build my ion as to what Con have shouted, ‘‘that’s not true, nothing like that, is hulegitimate way, and to get informat orHave you had that feeling of satisfaction that comes the poor scientist is forced to tread gress proposed doing in furthering the programs auth and possible,’ manly . jalopy ering sputt of t. cemen with, for instance, the repla 7 an upward path filled with obstacles of unbelief, ridicule ized by Leguia. but ac, Cadill a y saril neces not car, a of boat° m drea a with and in many casesfpersecution. In addition to this, . spent much time at the local a good serviceable vehicle? Well, that’s how The Nugget of fogs dense through’ appreciation, of Despite lack theater and in the Opera House, polishing my Spanish . staff feels this. week. on works ignorance and super superstition, the scientist and training my ear. It is fairly easy to learn to speak After a lot of delays and false starts and a day of work and gradually a hostile world accepts his gifts and in due . Spanish fluently, but to understand it when spoken is by the P. G. & E. power crew to give us three-phase time wonders how humanity ever got along without . much more of an art. The Peruvians speak excellent Caspower, The Nugget has its Miehle vertical printing press them. tillian for the most part, but they speak it so rapidly that in operation. Tuesday afternoon the Miehle produced For the greater part, the laws of evolution work slowthe cascading of sonorous syllables upon Northern ears as much commercial printing as the old creaking, groanly and silently; but 6ften times a man or a group of men ig almost overwhelming in its speed until those same ing hand press could do in three days. rises up to work with them and then the beneficent proears had months of practice in catching their import. * The Nugget invites its readers and customers to drop cesses are hastened and the uninitiated howl. I had one or two very amusing experiences while enin and watch the press in operation. It’s almost human It seems strange to those who live in this progressive ; gaged in this form of education. One evening, I. was the way mechanical fingers go this.way and that way, a age, that Copernicus, Bruno and Galileo were denounced: watching a performance of La Argentina—a famous thingamabob, goes around, and the printing comes out, . for their scientific discoveries and achievements, yet such dancer of her time—who was stopping at the same hotel finer and faster. was the case and such has been the case with almost evas . for her season in Lima. I was sitting a trifle away _ All in all, it’s a graaaand and glorious feeling. ery scientific advancement since. Sometime, perhaps from the others in the audience, by chance, and when very soon, the scientists of Palomar will make revolutionshe finished the Dance of Seville, which is done with a ILLITERATE EDUCATOR ary discoveries of some sort or another and we shall rose held in her mouth, she honored me by flinging the The Cherokee Indian,tribe once spread over both Carohear the same old chorus of derision and disbelief begin rose directly in my arms. No, it was not a mistake. She linas and large parts of Alabama and Georgia. After their age old Anvil Chorus. People are indeed funny. was really a very good shot. But the fact that she had Indians, other all like irresistible they, an is Let us consider the fact that evolution white men came to America, chosen an outlander like myself for the honor almost By. the early 1800's, their once large force and that in due time its plans are unfolded and caused me two duels the following day, for she was the had constant trouble = empire was greatly reduced, both in size and population. take place in the world about us. Why not work with this city’s idol. : They had forsworn the warpath and were trying to great force? Burbank did and we admire the results of Once when I was coming out of the hotel with a group become agricultural people. Realizing the need for knowlthe partnership every time we attend a flower show or of my Peruvian friends, we were beset by a score of edge, they had begged missionaries to settle among them eat a Burbank potato. American “‘trippers” who had come in from New York I once possessed a colored ‘chart which traced the evoand educate their children. Schools were established and on a pleasure cruise. At that time—the beginning of our children received instruction in the white man’s ways. lution of the flower from the simple four petaled blossom prohibition era—the average tripper was chiefly bent on found by scientists as they examined prehistoric rocks Yet three-fourths of the tribe remained illiterate. : a wild drunk for several weeks. man young a was to the gorgeous displays of life and beauty with which Among this ignorant majority This was not true of all, but of far too many to make named Sequoyah. He was born about 1770, son of a we are so familiar today. The rocks do not lie; imbedded a. favorable impression on the Latin, who does not like Cherokee woman and a German peddler named Gist. His within ancient stratas are indisputable evidences of the to see his women drunk. In this partciular case, . felt like English name was George Guest, derived from Gist. *Seslow processes of nature and these the scientist studies ‘administering a sound kicking to every member of this Guoyah"” means “guessed it.” and explains in due time, if we will but listen. particular group, male or female. Their conversation was Sequoyah lived as an Indian and never learned EngScientists working many times alone, unaided_and insulting, and I knew that many of the people in hearing lish. He was a natural artist, being both a skilled silveragainst great opposition have wrought greatly for the could understand English quite well. smith and painter of animals. The white man’s magic betterment of humanity. The ignorant, the intolerant Red-faced and humiliated, . watched them pile out of of writing and printing fascinated him and he resolved may for a time impede these tasks of progress, but in the bar room and tumble into the cabs which were to the Cherokees should have such a magic of their own. the end the true scientist is vindicated and one by one his take them back to their ship. Although my companions oe The unlettered Indian then set about devising an alphabet! detractors are forced to admit their errors. courteously refrained from noticing my embarrassment, Like other pioneers of human progress, Sequoyah was There is something unique and different about the ° suspected of.witchcraft and received abuse, even from his scientific brain. Let’s admit that right now and elect a few I could not refrain from heated comment. ‘Are these, then, real North Americans?” inquired own wife. He toiled for long, lonely years, only to have scientists to the Senate. Why not? Lawyers, agriculone of my friends, a young lieutenant in the Peruvian all his papers burned by the stupid woman, during his: turists, business men, we have a plethora of them in the absence. Sequoyah shrugged off this misfortune heroicalhalls of state, let’s get a few scientific minds to cope with navy. “No, by Heaven! No more than your drunken Quicly, but did leave the wretched shrew. He went to Arour domestic and international problems. . believe they kansas, ini order to work in peace. would delve deep and come up with some illuminating, . huas are real Peruvians,” I replied. “But those are poor—beasts of the field—you can exIn 1821, he came back; with a complete alphabet of perhaps revolutionary answers. singleof years twelve after pect no more of them. These men are well dressed, and finished —Adeline Merriam Conner. eighty-six characters, basic each the women seem as if they might be other than women handed labor. He had furnished a symob! for who simply do not know what English the from taken were Some of the streets. Why does your government permit them syllable. Cherokee the problem is. Anyone reading characHebrew or alphabet, others looked like Chinese the letters from the various govto insult our hospitalitv, my friends?” purpose. . made the universal gesture associated with money the for ernmental departments set forth ideal were all but ters, in your paper can readly see that were doubters but first, in Latin countries. “The steamship company makes it— The tribe was incredulous at getting this legislature through is your company as well as ours. Your hotels and liquor soon convinced. Cherokees, young and old, rapidly not an easy matter. dealers Incidentally, I also noted your make it. These poor fools are milked at every learned to read. editorial entitled “We Don’t Like turn, and they The people soon became the. most advanced of all are kept drunk on your liquor— at a The views and opinions apIt.” I have never heard of a fedpearing in this column, Letters price. Is it not so?” North American Indian tribes. By 1825, the tribal council eral agency asking for the politThe Editor, are not necessariI had him there. He shrugged his shoulders, and reical affiliation of the people runvoted to buy a press and type, for establishment of a to ly those of The Nugget. ning the newspaper. If that kind marked, “Well, whatever newspaper. The difficulties were enormous. The hand the gain, there is a loss to both North San Juan of inquiry is supposed to be helpour countries. Anyhow, press and fonts of type had to be sent from Boston to we know you are not that sort: July 11, 1949 ful to the Democratic party I am sure someone is sadly mistaken And there must be more at home like you. So let’s New Echota, Georgia, much of the way by wagon. Paper The Nugget, 1 go because it will have exactly the have our evening cocktail.” was hard to get, and type cases had to be made by white Nevada City, California. opposite effect. Which we did, to get the taste out of both of our printers who didn’t understand the type they were using. Gentlemen— Sincerely yours, We take cognisance of the imCLAIR ENGLE, M.‘C. mouths. Because of this, the printers received $400 a year; the proved appearance and contents Another ime, of The Nugget and send our con' Indian editor $300. Vhad gone up to the Cercla Francais (? ve Ae, y yw Letters to The Editor SWEETLAND NEWS thoughts your way. with a young English friend of mine, a member of In spite of all handicaps, the weekly, four-page Cherogratulatory the Like the majority of newsCasa Grace. He told me that most of the members kee Phoenix appeared on February 2!, 1828. Printed paper readers we seldom take By Roberta Stuart were partly in English and party in Sequoyah’s alphabet, it time out to tell the editor that Mrs. Roberta Stuart has reof French deacent or origin, but a few Americans and appreciate his ‘work, but we turned home from a month of Englishmen were allowed as guests. After dinner todrew subscribers from several states and at least one we think thoughts ang when we visiting with brothers and sisters Cherogether, successful, was we Phoenix the went into the smoking room, and I found from Germany. After think of The Nugget and its new and their families in the bay area kee laws, school books, and hymns, all appeared, in type editors, we usually say nice and Sacramento, and attending that a fellow countryman was making himself very conthe convention of the Native spicuous—he things to each other. everyone could comprehend. — was of the sort who could not hold his Best wishes to you all and to Daughters of the Golden West in elie telling in no uncertain terms how Uncle Sam -.The tribe gave Sequoyah a silver medal and other The Nugget. San Jose. Alfred and Paul Sauers were iste the ih for, the French and British. All eyes honors, but he remained with them only until the alphaYours as per usual, Adeline Merriam Conner unhurt when their log-loaded g y turned to him as his voice rose in tempo bet was adopted. Then he returned to the Arkansas countruck tipped over an embankand try. His achievement.was more than a mere invention. ment near Camptonville last the member who had inadvisedly brought him in was Congress of the United States week. literally shrinking from the scorn on the faces of his felHe really ranks with the unknown geniuses who gave House of Representatives Friends and relatives attending man the wheel and the bow and arrow, for he was ignoWashington, D. C. a Fourth of July family reunion low members. July 6, 1949 at the Samuel L. Gould home on F inally, he looked around. and saw me, and rant as a caveman when he began his work. dragged Robert H. and Donald W. Wray, the Tahoe-Ukiah road included me into the affair, as a fellow countryman. My British When he was well past seventy, he heard of a “‘lost Publishers Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Gould, tribe” of Cherokees supposedly. living in Mexico. The The Nevada City Nugget Hayward; Mr. and Mrs. Richard “eae ed ses disgust, but slyly whispered, “‘I can't elp it, old pati L. Gould, Oakland; Leonard N. ely chap. dauntless old man set forth in search of these lost Nevada City, California one =e He's o ne of yours, you know,” a8 and ma/ he died. Ironically, Gentlemen: brothers and while on that journey, the tribal council voted his hen-pecking wife an annual pension! . Today, the huge noble trees of California fittingly bear the name of this great man. The spelling has been slightly changed to ‘‘Sequoia.” Your editorial on the gold question of June 24th has come to my attention. I very much appreciate your comment on this matter as well as taking the space in your paper as you did on page 3 to show your readers what we are up against. Very often Senator McCarran and I are Gould, Nevada City; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stuart and family, Sweetland; Leslie Stinson, Sacramento; and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Trovino, Berkeley. Miss Helen Sauers, Sacramento, is spending two weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Matt Sauers of Sweetland. : All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. —James Freeman Clarke From lack of moralent strengt : . The. cultivation of the moral judgnient is the crucial criticized for not getting action ‘The swift can fly 100 miles an i trresieti poteh3acre alone fall. Right lle” petinan faster on our gold bills by people . hour. Phelps Torrance —Dr. need of civilization. —Mary Baker Eddy \

2—The Nevada City Nugget, Friday, July 15, 1949 Just Wonderiw’ ] Wonder about scientists ’s Praw Gop DiceerHal ey Charles Scott And all the things they do, To make this world a better place 305 Broad Street, Nevada City—Telephone 36 A legal newspaper, as defined by statute ROBERT H. and DONALD W. WRAY, Publishers KENNETH W. WRAY. Editor and Advertising Manager Member California Newspaper Publishers Association Published every Tuesday and Friday at Nevada City, California, and entered as matter of the sécond class in the postoffice at Nevada City cs under Act pf Congress, March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year outside county (in advance) -..--.-.-------2---+-ce-eeeeeseeeeeeeee $3.00 One year in county (in advance) -...-.:--------+-2-----seeeeeessseceeeeeeeettts 2.50 e eeeeecseees eeecneee ce eeeeceecenenss Four months (in advance) -..22.---------4ececcce One month (in advance) IT’S A GOOD FEELING For me and likewise you. In the meantime, I was having a wonderful time. Evlf and myse ery evening, a group of Peruvian ¢ronies This would have been a sorry world indeed, had it not would drift down to Morris Bar, the American bar of been for the men of science, who have, in all ages worked Lima, and have a few Pizco punches. These are calcuof with the laws of evolution for the betterment of man. lated to raise the standard of optimism in the coldest ride and True scientists have been men of indomitable deterbloods. Then we would call for one or two cars, mination and unshakable courage—they had to be, if up and down and around the Exposition—the widest and they were to function in a society that invariably was most beautiful street in Lima— for half an hour or more nds of the “agin ‘em. To every innovation proposed by the patient in the cool of the evening. Then into the grou Lima, ebout scientist, the can’t chorus began to chant. For some reapark itself, and to the best dining room in enson or other, the human animal fears and hates change; nine. Here a group of us would sit until eleven o'clock _ of joying a wonderfully good meal of great variety, and he shrinks from change in his modes and manners enjoyed. living, he dreads to exchange his old opinions for new down with some of the best wines I have ever fences in a ones and so every discovery of science, the stand patters All the time, I would be trying to build my ion as to what Con have shouted, ‘‘that’s not true, nothing like that, is hulegitimate way, and to get informat orHave you had that feeling of satisfaction that comes the poor scientist is forced to tread gress proposed doing in furthering the programs auth and possible,’ manly . jalopy ering sputt of t. cemen with, for instance, the repla 7 an upward path filled with obstacles of unbelief, ridicule ized by Leguia. but ac, Cadill a y saril neces not car, a of boat° m drea a with and in many casesfpersecution. In addition to this, . spent much time at the local a good serviceable vehicle? Well, that’s how The Nugget of fogs dense through’ appreciation, of Despite lack theater and in the Opera House, polishing my Spanish . staff feels this. week. on works ignorance and super superstition, the scientist and training my ear. It is fairly easy to learn to speak After a lot of delays and false starts and a day of work and gradually a hostile world accepts his gifts and in due . Spanish fluently, but to understand it when spoken is by the P. G. & E. power crew to give us three-phase time wonders how humanity ever got along without . much more of an art. The Peruvians speak excellent Caspower, The Nugget has its Miehle vertical printing press them. tillian for the most part, but they speak it so rapidly that in operation. Tuesday afternoon the Miehle produced For the greater part, the laws of evolution work slowthe cascading of sonorous syllables upon Northern ears as much commercial printing as the old creaking, groanly and silently; but 6ften times a man or a group of men ig almost overwhelming in its speed until those same ing hand press could do in three days. rises up to work with them and then the beneficent proears had months of practice in catching their import. * The Nugget invites its readers and customers to drop cesses are hastened and the uninitiated howl. I had one or two very amusing experiences while enin and watch the press in operation. It’s almost human It seems strange to those who live in this progressive ; gaged in this form of education. One evening, I. was the way mechanical fingers go this.way and that way, a age, that Copernicus, Bruno and Galileo were denounced: watching a performance of La Argentina—a famous thingamabob, goes around, and the printing comes out, . for their scientific discoveries and achievements, yet such dancer of her time—who was stopping at the same hotel finer and faster. was the case and such has been the case with almost evas . for her season in Lima. I was sitting a trifle away _ All in all, it’s a graaaand and glorious feeling. ery scientific advancement since. Sometime, perhaps from the others in the audience, by chance, and when very soon, the scientists of Palomar will make revolutionshe finished the Dance of Seville, which is done with a ILLITERATE EDUCATOR ary discoveries of some sort or another and we shall rose held in her mouth, she honored me by flinging the The Cherokee Indian,tribe once spread over both Carohear the same old chorus of derision and disbelief begin rose directly in my arms. No, it was not a mistake. She linas and large parts of Alabama and Georgia. After their age old Anvil Chorus. People are indeed funny. was really a very good shot. But the fact that she had Indians, other all like irresistible they, an is Let us consider the fact that evolution white men came to America, chosen an outlander like myself for the honor almost By. the early 1800's, their once large force and that in due time its plans are unfolded and caused me two duels the following day, for she was the had constant trouble = empire was greatly reduced, both in size and population. take place in the world about us. Why not work with this city’s idol. : They had forsworn the warpath and were trying to great force? Burbank did and we admire the results of Once when I was coming out of the hotel with a group become agricultural people. Realizing the need for knowlthe partnership every time we attend a flower show or of my Peruvian friends, we were beset by a score of edge, they had begged missionaries to settle among them eat a Burbank potato. American “‘trippers” who had come in from New York I once possessed a colored ‘chart which traced the evoand educate their children. Schools were established and on a pleasure cruise. At that time—the beginning of our children received instruction in the white man’s ways. lution of the flower from the simple four petaled blossom prohibition era—the average tripper was chiefly bent on found by scientists as they examined prehistoric rocks Yet three-fourths of the tribe remained illiterate. : a wild drunk for several weeks. man young a was to the gorgeous displays of life and beauty with which Among this ignorant majority This was not true of all, but of far too many to make named Sequoyah. He was born about 1770, son of a we are so familiar today. The rocks do not lie; imbedded a. favorable impression on the Latin, who does not like Cherokee woman and a German peddler named Gist. His within ancient stratas are indisputable evidences of the to see his women drunk. In this partciular case, . felt like English name was George Guest, derived from Gist. *Seslow processes of nature and these the scientist studies ‘administering a sound kicking to every member of this Guoyah"” means “guessed it.” and explains in due time, if we will but listen. particular group, male or female. Their conversation was Sequoyah lived as an Indian and never learned EngScientists working many times alone, unaided_and insulting, and I knew that many of the people in hearing lish. He was a natural artist, being both a skilled silveragainst great opposition have wrought greatly for the could understand English quite well. smith and painter of animals. The white man’s magic betterment of humanity. The ignorant, the intolerant Red-faced and humiliated, . watched them pile out of of writing and printing fascinated him and he resolved may for a time impede these tasks of progress, but in the bar room and tumble into the cabs which were to the Cherokees should have such a magic of their own. the end the true scientist is vindicated and one by one his take them back to their ship. Although my companions oe The unlettered Indian then set about devising an alphabet! detractors are forced to admit their errors. courteously refrained from noticing my embarrassment, Like other pioneers of human progress, Sequoyah was There is something unique and different about the ° suspected of.witchcraft and received abuse, even from his scientific brain. Let’s admit that right now and elect a few I could not refrain from heated comment. ‘Are these, then, real North Americans?” inquired own wife. He toiled for long, lonely years, only to have scientists to the Senate. Why not? Lawyers, agriculone of my friends, a young lieutenant in the Peruvian all his papers burned by the stupid woman, during his: turists, business men, we have a plethora of them in the absence. Sequoyah shrugged off this misfortune heroicalhalls of state, let’s get a few scientific minds to cope with navy. “No, by Heaven! No more than your drunken Quicly, but did leave the wretched shrew. He went to Arour domestic and international problems. . believe they kansas, ini order to work in peace. would delve deep and come up with some illuminating, . huas are real Peruvians,” I replied. “But those are poor—beasts of the field—you can exIn 1821, he came back; with a complete alphabet of perhaps revolutionary answers. singleof years twelve after pect

no more of them. These men are well dressed, and finished —Adeline Merriam Conner. eighty-six characters, basic each the women seem as if they might be other than women handed labor. He had furnished a symob! for who simply do not know what English the from taken were Some of the streets. Why does your government permit them syllable. Cherokee the problem is. Anyone reading characHebrew or alphabet, others looked like Chinese the letters from the various govto insult our hospitalitv, my friends?” purpose. . made the universal gesture associated with money the for ernmental departments set forth ideal were all but ters, in your paper can readly see that were doubters but first, in Latin countries. “The steamship company makes it— The tribe was incredulous at getting this legislature through is your company as well as ours. Your hotels and liquor soon convinced. Cherokees, young and old, rapidly not an easy matter. dealers Incidentally, I also noted your make it. These poor fools are milked at every learned to read. editorial entitled “We Don’t Like turn, and they The people soon became the. most advanced of all are kept drunk on your liquor— at a The views and opinions apIt.” I have never heard of a fedpearing in this column, Letters price. Is it not so?” North American Indian tribes. By 1825, the tribal council eral agency asking for the politThe Editor, are not necessariI had him there. He shrugged his shoulders, and reical affiliation of the people runvoted to buy a press and type, for establishment of a to ly those of The Nugget. ning the newspaper. If that kind marked, “Well, whatever newspaper. The difficulties were enormous. The hand the gain, there is a loss to both North San Juan of inquiry is supposed to be helpour countries. Anyhow, press and fonts of type had to be sent from Boston to we know you are not that sort: July 11, 1949 ful to the Democratic party I am sure someone is sadly mistaken And there must be more at home like you. So let’s New Echota, Georgia, much of the way by wagon. Paper The Nugget, 1 go because it will have exactly the have our evening cocktail.” was hard to get, and type cases had to be made by white Nevada City, California. opposite effect. Which we did, to get the taste out of both of our printers who didn’t understand the type they were using. Gentlemen— Sincerely yours, We take cognisance of the imCLAIR ENGLE, M.‘C. mouths. Because of this, the printers received $400 a year; the proved appearance and contents Another ime, of The Nugget and send our con' Indian editor $300. Vhad gone up to the Cercla Francais (? ve Ae, y yw Letters to The Editor SWEETLAND NEWS thoughts your way. with a young English friend of mine, a member of In spite of all handicaps, the weekly, four-page Cherogratulatory the Like the majority of newsCasa Grace. He told me that most of the members kee Phoenix appeared on February 2!, 1828. Printed paper readers we seldom take By Roberta Stuart were partly in English and party in Sequoyah’s alphabet, it time out to tell the editor that Mrs. Roberta Stuart has reof French deacent or origin, but a few Americans and appreciate his ‘work, but we turned home from a month of Englishmen were allowed as guests. After dinner todrew subscribers from several states and at least one we think thoughts ang when we visiting with brothers and sisters Cherogether, successful, was we Phoenix the went into the smoking room, and I found from Germany. After think of The Nugget and its new and their families in the bay area kee laws, school books, and hymns, all appeared, in type editors, we usually say nice and Sacramento, and attending that a fellow countryman was making himself very conthe convention of the Native spicuous—he things to each other. everyone could comprehend. — was of the sort who could not hold his Best wishes to you all and to Daughters of the Golden West in elie telling in no uncertain terms how Uncle Sam -.The tribe gave Sequoyah a silver medal and other The Nugget. San Jose. Alfred and Paul Sauers were iste the ih for, the French and British. All eyes honors, but he remained with them only until the alphaYours as per usual, Adeline Merriam Conner unhurt when their log-loaded g y turned to him as his voice rose in tempo bet was adopted. Then he returned to the Arkansas countruck tipped over an embankand try. His achievement.was more than a mere invention. ment near Camptonville last the member who had inadvisedly brought him in was Congress of the United States week. literally shrinking from the scorn on the faces of his felHe really ranks with the unknown geniuses who gave House of Representatives Friends and relatives attending man the wheel and the bow and arrow, for he was ignoWashington, D. C. a Fourth of July family reunion low members. July 6, 1949 at the Samuel L. Gould home on F inally, he looked around. and saw me, and rant as a caveman when he began his work. dragged Robert H. and Donald W. Wray, the Tahoe-Ukiah road included me into the affair, as a fellow countryman. My British When he was well past seventy, he heard of a “‘lost Publishers Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Gould, tribe” of Cherokees supposedly. living in Mexico. The The Nevada City Nugget Hayward; Mr. and Mrs. Richard “eae ed ses disgust, but slyly whispered, “‘I can't elp it, old pati L. Gould, Oakland; Leonard N. ely chap. dauntless old man set forth in search of these lost Nevada City, California one =e He's o ne of yours, you know,” a8 and ma/ he died. Ironically, Gentlemen: brothers and while on that journey, the tribal council voted his hen-pecking wife an annual pension! . Today, the huge noble trees of California fittingly bear the name of this great man. The spelling has been slightly changed to ‘‘Sequoia.” Your editorial on the gold question of June 24th has come to my attention. I very much appreciate your comment on this matter as well as taking the space in your paper as you did on page 3 to show your readers what we are up against. Very often Senator McCarran and I are Gould, Nevada City; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stuart and family, Sweetland; Leslie Stinson, Sacramento; and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Trovino, Berkeley. Miss Helen Sauers, Sacramento, is spending two weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Matt Sauers of Sweetland. : All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. —James Freeman Clarke From lack of moralent strengt : . The. cultivation of the moral judgnient is the crucial criticized for not getting action ‘The swift can fly 100 miles an i trresieti poteh3acre alone fall. Right lle” petinan faster on our gold bills by people . hour. Phelps Torrance —Dr. need of civilization. —Mary Baker Eddy \