June 17, 1949 (8 pages)

. 2—The Nevada City Nugget, Friday, June 17, 1949 The sBisclihics Race O08 GLOW IS A VERY AMIABLE ne Ger It! CITIZEN UNTIL SOMEBODY MENTIONS THAT HE BETTER NOT DRIVE ( 2M SCHWACKED,HUNK? ee . HAD TOO MANY DO S—=vs 305 Broad Street, Nevada City—Telephone 36 A legal newspaper, as defined by statute THIS ? I ASK YA-? ’s Trai L Gow DieeScoer tt Haley Charles The first intimation that I received was in coming out of our mess at noon on the eleventh. A white Russian: minor princeling had been working for us as an account lt of the Bolant, having been driven to work as a resu was not very preshevik confiscation of his estates. He ROBERT H. and DONALD W. WRAY, Publishers KENNETH W. WRA\*. Editor and Advertising Manager Member California Newspaper Publishers Association ng possessing, and as I stepped out the door of our dini , and Published every Tuesday and Friday at Nevada City, California City Nevada at pestoffice the in class secend the of matter as entered 4 @ under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. und the room ahead of the others, he grabbed me aro One year in county (in advahce) neck and imprinted two very moist and garlicky kisses e at princes on either cheek. . have always looked askanc Four months (in advance) One month (in advance) ever since. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year outside county (in advance) : a That afternoon I went to Nevers and was mobbed by the crowd. I forgot to mention that I was assigned three FIRE IN THE FORESTS cars for my regular rounds. One, a La Buire limousine Summer and fall constitute two of the most serious: fire periods fn this country. Forests and fields dry out, awaiting only the touch ‘of a spark to burst into“flame. Tourists throng the highways. Thousands of campers go into the woods. Commercial camps and vacation spots of all kinds run at capacity. with a French chauffeur, always made me feel like a stuffed shirt, so I never used it. It came in very handy after the armistice for my lieutenants to haul liquor in, though. Another car was a Hispano-Suiza capable of a hundred kilometers or better per hour, driven by a wild little Argentinian who spent most of his time proving Every year sees the destruction of magnificent forests, accompanied bya tragic toll of wildlife. Some forest fires do occur spontaneously, from lightning or other natural causes. But a far greater number can be attributed to the top speed of the car. This, over French roads which had been cut up badly, proved rather tough on the car, and it was in the shop for repair more often than not. So: the one car on which . could depend was a good American Dodge with an army chauffeur. That after human carelessness and ignorance. The motorist who throws burning cigarette butts and, matches from his car, and the camper who leaves a fire without dousing it with water and burying it with earth until every spark is out and every ember is cold, are two of the worst offenders. noon, we drove to Nevers, and my corporal driver, who was younger than I and better looking, fortunately took the front line barrage of kisses and huge as our car was The whole nation is the poorer because of them. A plain duty confronts everfone who goes into the outdoors for any reason. It is to protect a heritage which, once destroyed, may take centuries to replace. The vari stopped by delirious women folk. A few of the gals were quite good looking, as I recall it now, but I let the enlisted man do most of the work, as ‘ous public and private bodies which deal with fire are doing a fine job. They are making available to all simple, easy rules for fire safety. They maintain patrols and fire fighting organizations. But they can do little without public cooperation. A forest fire can spread with incredible swiftness, and be completely beyond control in a matter of minutes under certain conditions. Make the most of the woods—and save them for the future. Just Wonderin Ee I Wonder if ‘some one is waiting For words that your lips may say, Or a letter your hand may be writing To brighten his special day. It takes so little to please him— A token, a letter, a kiss; Ideas go booming through the world lounder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots. WwW. M. Paxton J An entire day devoted to Father Is one that we never shall miss. was proper and fitting for a commanding officer. After the armistice, things began to slack off, and we had time to make ourselves comfortable. We built a very nice headquarters with a big fireplace of excess material on hand, and I also built a dance hall and clubroom for enlisted men and supplied it with a couple of pianos gleaned from the Y.M.C.A. . found the latter organiza tion very accommodating, in spite of bitter feeling which it seemed to have engendered in some quarters. . sent many hundreds of enlisted men, both white and colored, to leave resorts maintained by the Y, and they all had an excellent rest and a good time. One evening in December, . invited a few French to dinner. The fireplace was prodibe a joyous one for the fathers of America and for those officers of the Genie Great ideas come when the world needs them. They who conspire’to make it joyous. Upon this one day of gally blazing with army briquettes, and it was a cold and surround the world’s ignorance and press for admission. the year.we may devote our selves to the task of repaydrizzling day outside. One of my guests—a French Major his hands. He —Austin Phelps ing father, in some little way for all his love and tender—walked up to the fireplace, and warmed him that hath » ‘“To English, in ness and care which he has be bestowed upon us through turned to me, and remarked Sunday next is Fathers’ Day and . hope that it will Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the the it shall surely be given, says the Good Book.”’ years. fluent thought of the ages that is crystallized in a moment I asked him to explain. He said, ‘In a French officers’ I Wonder if any of our celebrations in honor of father by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet. mess, those coals would do for a week's fires.”’ not and I believe that the—E. H. Chapin will be prefunctory. I hope We all seemed terribly extravagant to French eyes. children of this and older generations will enter into the it that dad is not left in doubt But there were plenty of peasants ready to take advantThe changing glow and full effulgence of God's inspirit of the day and see to s for him. Sometimes we are age of it. Eggs trebled in price, and trebled again, and for sentiment their g concernin finite ideas, images, mark the periods of progress. ones, but let’s speak up next all liquors there ‘was a special. price called the “prix, —Mary Baker Eddy inarticulate with our dear Sunday; let’s tell father that we love him and give him a Americaine’’. Soon the army game clamped down on us. We were that will prove the truth of our words. It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men to put kiss and a hug required to spend our days in paper work. . had already The average father wil! be truly thrilled by such a demtrust in ideas, and not in circustances. —Emerson submitted a full report and accounting for the hospital onstration of affection; it will linger in his mind and at Saint Parize, and there was little to do, in the way of having _ Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and warm his heart for many a day to come. Perhaps constructive action. It soon became evident to us all that find his strength and his pleasure. —George Sand broken the ice and spoken our sentiments, we shall we stood not a chance of getting home till the following it easy to repeat the little ceremony of convincing father. summer on account of lack of transport facilities. But to ~ All successful individuals have become such by hard Perhaps it might even become a daily habit to whisper spend our time in futile preparation of morning reports to show work; by improving moments before they pass into the words, “I love you,”’ to your own father’and not tire and company reports and innumerable other army red will Father them. mean hours, and hours that other people may occupy in the by our actions that we knows? tape requirements which were only destined for extincpursuit of pleasure. Maa —Mary Baker Eddy of the words, nor of the demonstrations and who tion in that morass known as “The Files’ was not my With so.much love and devotion demonstrated each day Floridan (picking up a melon): “Is this the largest for a year, might bring /smiles to the sour face of this apple you can grow in your state?” Californian: “Stop old world and usher in the age of peace and good will among all men. fingering that grape.” nature, nor did it suit my book. When . found that I had to sign my name five hundred times to send twenty of my boys on leave, . trained four top sergeants to sign my name and copy my signature realistically, and began When one is imagining, one might as well imagine to look aroud a bit to see if there was not some fun to be big; and a general overflow of love among parents and gotten out of France. Before the armistice, the Army had children, husbands and wives, step mothers and sons in pretty much let us do our jobs by civilian methods, belaw has never been tried; there is no harm in speculatcause the need of getting work done at once was very ing about the effect such an amount of demonstrated evident. But after the armistice, we had to do everything love would have on the family, the neighborhood, the according to army routine; and that meant getting very town or the state. . wish it could be tried. tender memlittle accomplished. To many of us Father's Day will bring I remember one incident which galled me a little. One ories of one who is “away.” It will be a day of tender January evening, . came home from Nevers and found reminiscing and of recalling all the dear familiar scenes on my table a note from my best top sergeant, Quinof childhood, youth and even later years. . think there liven, saying, “Am in the guardhouse at Base Hospital. is no stronger bond of affection than that which exists Please come and get me out.”’ and an appreciative child, cer betwen a devoted father Naturally, . sent an orderly down to this particular tainly the companionship of father and son, or father and daughter is incomparable in its power to bring happiness unit—one of the 2,000 bed units which I had constructed —-instructing. the adjutant of the medical corps that he and profit into the lives of those who experience it. had better release an enginer sergeant on his own recogI hope that the coming of Fathers’ Day will bring great nizance at once; and referred him to Army Regulations. happiness to the fathers of our land and thta its gracious example may bring about its adoption by other lands and Soon, back came my sergeant, very downcast. “What did they put you under arrest for, sergeant?” other people. Let us realize that the homes of our land For dancing with a nurse at a medic party down at are its most priceless possessions and that in them Mother her.own in queen a the base, sir.” as Mother supreme. reign and Father right and father a beloved sovereign whose reign is benign “‘H-mm! There was a gal named Eve once, sergeant. us do without a lot of necessities so “}\ Inflation makes A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life. —Jean Ingelow and whose influences are exerted in behalf of all that is What were you doing down there?” good and true, fine and noble in the American Home of “Just walking past, and stopped to watch them. One : today. of the nurses . knew asked me to dance one with her. Here’s to the fathers of the land; may the living reNow they insist on preferring charges against me in your ceive their meed of love and appreciation and may fond court. What will I do, sir?” : memories enshrine those who are—‘‘away. _ (to be continued) —Adeline Merriam Conner _. we can buy the luxuries we can't live without. ©

. 2—The Nevada City Nugget, Friday, June 17, 1949 The sBisclihics Race O08 GLOW IS A VERY AMIABLE ne Ger It! CITIZEN UNTIL SOMEBODY MENTIONS THAT HE BETTER NOT DRIVE ( 2M SCHWACKED,HUNK? ee . HAD TOO MANY DO S—=vs 305 Broad Street, Nevada City—Telephone 36 A legal newspaper, as defined by statute THIS ? I ASK YA-? ’s Trai L Gow DieeScoer tt Haley Charles The first intimation that I received was in coming out of our mess at noon on the eleventh. A white Russian: minor princeling had been working for us as an account lt of the Bolant, having been driven to work as a resu was not very preshevik confiscation of his estates. He ROBERT H. and DONALD W. WRAY, Publishers KENNETH W. WRA\*. Editor and Advertising Manager Member California Newspaper Publishers Association ng possessing, and as I stepped out the door of our dini , and Published every Tuesday and Friday at Nevada City, California City Nevada at pestoffice the in class secend the of matter as entered 4 @ under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. und the room ahead of the others, he grabbed me aro One year in county (in advahce) neck and imprinted two very moist and garlicky kisses e at princes on either cheek. . have always looked askanc Four months (in advance) One month (in advance) ever since. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year outside county (in advance) : a That afternoon I went to Nevers and was mobbed by the crowd. I forgot to mention that I was assigned three FIRE IN THE FORESTS cars for my regular rounds. One, a La Buire limousine Summer and fall constitute two of the most serious: fire periods fn this country. Forests and fields dry out, awaiting only the touch ‘of a spark to burst into“flame. Tourists throng the highways. Thousands of campers go into the woods. Commercial camps and vacation spots of all kinds run at capacity. with a French chauffeur, always made me feel like a stuffed shirt, so I never used it. It came in very handy after the armistice for my lieutenants to haul liquor in, though. Another car was a Hispano-Suiza capable of a hundred kilometers or better per hour, driven by a wild little Argentinian who spent most of his time proving Every year sees the destruction of magnificent forests, accompanied bya tragic toll of wildlife. Some forest fires do occur spontaneously, from lightning or other natural causes. But a far greater number can be attributed to the top speed of the car. This, over French roads which had been cut up badly, proved rather tough on the car, and it was in the shop for repair more often than not. So: the one car on which . could depend was a good American Dodge with an army chauffeur. That after human carelessness and ignorance. The motorist who throws burning cigarette butts and, matches from his car, and the camper who leaves a fire without dousing it with water and burying it with earth until every spark is out and every ember is cold, are two of the worst offenders. noon, we drove to Nevers, and my corporal driver, who was younger than I and better looking, fortunately took the front line barrage of kisses and huge as our car was The whole nation is the poorer because of them. A plain duty confronts everfone who goes into the outdoors for any reason. It is to protect a heritage which, once destroyed, may take centuries to replace. The vari stopped by delirious women folk. A few of the gals were quite good looking, as I recall it now, but I let the enlisted man do most of the work, as ‘ous public and private bodies which deal with fire are doing a fine job. They are making available to all simple, easy rules for fire safety. They maintain patrols and fire fighting organizations. But they can do little without public cooperation. A forest fire can spread with incredible swiftness, and be completely beyond control in a matter of minutes under certain conditions. Make the most of the woods—and save them for the future. Just Wonderin Ee I Wonder if ‘some one is waiting For words that your lips may say, Or a letter your hand may be writing To brighten his special day. It takes so little to please him— A token, a letter, a kiss; Ideas go booming through the world lounder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots. WwW. M. Paxton J An entire day devoted to Father Is one that we never shall miss.

was proper and fitting for a commanding officer. After the armistice, things began to slack off, and we had time to make ourselves comfortable. We built a very nice headquarters with a big fireplace of excess material on hand, and I also built a dance hall and clubroom for enlisted men and supplied it with a couple of pianos gleaned from the Y.M.C.A. . found the latter organiza tion very accommodating, in spite of bitter feeling which it seemed to have engendered in some quarters. . sent many hundreds of enlisted men, both white and colored, to leave resorts maintained by the Y, and they all had an excellent rest and a good time. One evening in December, . invited a few French to dinner. The fireplace was prodibe a joyous one for the fathers of America and for those officers of the Genie Great ideas come when the world needs them. They who conspire’to make it joyous. Upon this one day of gally blazing with army briquettes, and it was a cold and surround the world’s ignorance and press for admission. the year.we may devote our selves to the task of repaydrizzling day outside. One of my guests—a French Major his hands. He —Austin Phelps ing father, in some little way for all his love and tender—walked up to the fireplace, and warmed him that hath » ‘“To English, in ness and care which he has be bestowed upon us through turned to me, and remarked Sunday next is Fathers’ Day and . hope that it will Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the the it shall surely be given, says the Good Book.”’ years. fluent thought of the ages that is crystallized in a moment I asked him to explain. He said, ‘In a French officers’ I Wonder if any of our celebrations in honor of father by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet. mess, those coals would do for a week's fires.”’ not and I believe that the—E. H. Chapin will be prefunctory. I hope We all seemed terribly extravagant to French eyes. children of this and older generations will enter into the it that dad is not left in doubt But there were plenty of peasants ready to take advantThe changing glow and full effulgence of God's inspirit of the day and see to s for him. Sometimes we are age of it. Eggs trebled in price, and trebled again, and for sentiment their g concernin finite ideas, images, mark the periods of progress. ones, but let’s speak up next all liquors there ‘was a special. price called the “prix, —Mary Baker Eddy inarticulate with our dear Sunday; let’s tell father that we love him and give him a Americaine’’. Soon the army game clamped down on us. We were that will prove the truth of our words. It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men to put kiss and a hug required to spend our days in paper work. . had already The average father wil! be truly thrilled by such a demtrust in ideas, and not in circustances. —Emerson submitted a full report and accounting for the hospital onstration of affection; it will linger in his mind and at Saint Parize, and there was little to do, in the way of having _ Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and warm his heart for many a day to come. Perhaps constructive action. It soon became evident to us all that find his strength and his pleasure. —George Sand broken the ice and spoken our sentiments, we shall we stood not a chance of getting home till the following it easy to repeat the little ceremony of convincing father. summer on account of lack of transport facilities. But to ~ All successful individuals have become such by hard Perhaps it might even become a daily habit to whisper spend our time in futile preparation of morning reports to show work; by improving moments before they pass into the words, “I love you,”’ to your own father’and not tire and company reports and innumerable other army red will Father them. mean hours, and hours that other people may occupy in the by our actions that we knows? tape requirements which were only destined for extincpursuit of pleasure. Maa —Mary Baker Eddy of the words, nor of the demonstrations and who tion in that morass known as “The Files’ was not my With so.much love and devotion demonstrated each day Floridan (picking up a melon): “Is this the largest for a year, might bring /smiles to the sour face of this apple you can grow in your state?” Californian: “Stop old world and usher in the age of peace and good will among all men. fingering that grape.” nature, nor did it suit my book. When . found that I had to sign my name five hundred times to send twenty of my boys on leave, . trained four top sergeants to sign my name and copy my signature realistically, and began When one is imagining, one might as well imagine to look aroud a bit to see if there was not some fun to be big; and a general overflow of love among parents and gotten out of France. Before the armistice, the Army had children, husbands and wives, step mothers and sons in pretty much let us do our jobs by civilian methods, belaw has never been tried; there is no harm in speculatcause the need of getting work done at once was very ing about the effect such an amount of demonstrated evident. But after the armistice, we had to do everything love would have on the family, the neighborhood, the according to army routine; and that meant getting very town or the state. . wish it could be tried. tender memlittle accomplished. To many of us Father's Day will bring I remember one incident which galled me a little. One ories of one who is “away.” It will be a day of tender January evening, . came home from Nevers and found reminiscing and of recalling all the dear familiar scenes on my table a note from my best top sergeant, Quinof childhood, youth and even later years. . think there liven, saying, “Am in the guardhouse at Base Hospital. is no stronger bond of affection than that which exists Please come and get me out.”’ and an appreciative child, cer betwen a devoted father Naturally, . sent an orderly down to this particular tainly the companionship of father and son, or father and daughter is incomparable in its power to bring happiness unit—one of the 2,000 bed units which I had constructed —-instructing. the adjutant of the medical corps that he and profit into the lives of those who experience it. had better release an enginer sergeant on his own recogI hope that the coming of Fathers’ Day will bring great nizance at once; and referred him to Army Regulations. happiness to the fathers of our land and thta its gracious example may bring about its adoption by other lands and Soon, back came my sergeant, very downcast. “What did they put you under arrest for, sergeant?” other people. Let us realize that the homes of our land For dancing with a nurse at a medic party down at are its most priceless possessions and that in them Mother her.own in queen a the base, sir.” as Mother supreme. reign and Father right and father a beloved sovereign whose reign is benign “‘H-mm! There was a gal named Eve once, sergeant. us do without a lot of necessities so “}\ Inflation makes A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life. —Jean Ingelow and whose influences are exerted in behalf of all that is What were you doing down there?” good and true, fine and noble in the American Home of “Just walking past, and stopped to watch them. One : today. of the nurses . knew asked me to dance one with her. Here’s to the fathers of the land; may the living reNow they insist on preferring charges against me in your ceive their meed of love and appreciation and may fond court. What will I do, sir?” : memories enshrine those who are—‘‘away. _ (to be continued) —Adeline Merriam Conner _. we can buy the luxuries we can't live without. ©