August 14, 1939 (4 pages)

Thinking Out Loud _By H. M. L. ciaeeninel evada City COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ugget ifiable ends. ton. From the Californian, March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives and, for just’ —Alexander ‘Hamilca ee No one can be certain that the “Ham and Eggs’ or “$30 Every Thursday” will not be enacted by the people at the polls, come November 7. All those who have been willing to think the plan through have mentally rejected as just an* other panacea with no medicinal merit. No one person will accept a promisory note to be paid in a year, and then pay four cents more in taxes than the face of the note. It just isn’t done among sane people and.we believe that the majority is sane. So that even, if adopted, it will not work because no one wants to sell a dollar’s worth of goods and then add $1.04 to it make the dollar, In effect the seller has given his goods away and then paid $1.04 for the privilege of selling the goods. If one person can’t stand this racket the whole, population of the state can stand it no better. ‘But it is not a foregone conclusion that Ham and Eggs may not be with us after November 7. There are a lot of elderly folks in California who have graduated from the Townsend class. They have dispaired of ever seeing $200 a month materalize Federal tax to provide it, and they are now enrolled in a Class conducted by certain unscrupulous circus barkers in Hollywood. By contributing dimes and _nickles enough they are deluging the state with their strange and _ curious propaganda. Their children who would like to see the old folks cared for at somebody’s else expense, they, too, are pulling with might and main, to make the dream come true at the polls. But even if Ham ang Eggs were approved, just as happened in Alberta, Canada, the scheme would fail because no one wants to wait a year for a debtor dollar and buy stamps enough to equal that dollar plus four cents. The very people ‘that will note for it will be the first to repudiate the plan, and to yammer for sound’U. S. backed money in all dealings in which they participate. : If it should pass, one shudders to think of what a Brobdingnagian jest it will be on California. From Msine’s salty coast to “where rolls the Oregon,” a guffaw, a _ belly laugh would rise in raucus volume to rend the blue firmament. Reyerberations of this mirth would crackle around the world. It would also mean another influx of elderly folk. In every state ‘‘pa’’ and “ma’’ would pack their worldly goods into the family car and hit the highway for -California which hands out $30 every Thursday. The fact that this kind of currency would have no standing . among either merchants or bankers, would not even cause them to hesitate. They could well reason that whether or no the $30 Thursday was good, the fertile brains of those who are able to gull their hundreds of _thousands into voting for Utopias of the Never Never Land, would hatch something else that might miraculously work. When thé $30 every Thursday fails, either at the polls or in practice, we may look for another scheme from the same source as this. It will make little difference to these inventors of delusion whether their scheme works’ or not, They have struck ‘‘pay dirt’’ in the credulity of thousands who believe the government owes them a living. Barnum found it first, and declared in effect that it was an inexhaustible source of riches. “One is born every minute,” said Mr. Barnum, fifty years ago. Today considering the increase in population, we would say that sixty are born every minute. -A flood of circulars, newspapers, letters comes through the mail, advocating this scheme that was ‘borrowed intact from the Alberta, Canada, where it failed miserably. It costs a heap of money to propagandize six million people in California,. no one can say how much because under present laws none may check the books of the promoters. But one thing is very certain the money is coming from the pockets of those who can least afford to spend it, elderly dreamers who have failed somehow, through génerosity, prodigality, mental lack, or effort when younger to amass a competence. One suspects that many of the converts to this gigantic hoax, have been habitual gamblers all their lives; not gamblers, perhaps, in the usual through a_ Vol. 13, No. 65. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIF sor hal The Gold Center MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1939. SUPERVISORS TO SPONSOR DAY ATSTATEFAIR SACRAMENTO, Aug.: 14.—Members of the board of supervisors of Nevada county will sponsor a Nevada County Day, September 9 at the California State Fair and arrange for a caravan to the grounds, including school buses for children, Secretary Manager Robert Muckler was informed. A tentative committee to handle the arrangements will meet next week. Members of the committee will include’ the Board of Supervisors, W. W. Esterly, Mayor John R. Thomas, Dan Stewart, and Dave Baun of Grass Valley; Mayor Ben Hall, Emmett Gallagher, H. F, Sofje and Fred Cassidy of Nevada City; W. W. White, and Clyde Edmunds of. Truc. ‘kee; and Miles Tilden and Mrs. W. A. Cunningham of North San Juan. HUNDREDS ATTEND HOME COMING AT FOREST HILL Several hundred. 3 peopte motored to Forest City above Alleghany for the big annual “Home Coming” week end. The residents of the little town had prepared a royal welcome for all of those who come. There was dancing Saturday evening and Sunday was occupied with games, amateur hour, swimming contests, boxing, foot rates, until late evening ‘when visitors from all over the state started returning. Jamés Williams is acting chief of police for Chief ‘Garfield . Robson while he is away on his two weeks ‘vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Robson ars visiting relatives in Santa Rosa and it is understood they will go to the fair on Treasure Island before they return. Max Ruth returned home Saturday from a three weeks visit with relatives in LeGrande, Oregon. Mrs. Rosie Fradelizio and daughter, Miss Mamie Fradelizio, and» Miss Ida Pratti, left this morning for a week in San Francisco and at the fair. Miss Pratti is stenographer in the Plaza Grocery store and has a week’s vacation. Mrs. Mamie Flynn is visiting with her sister in Grass Valley. Her little niece, Doris Brown, had her tonsils removed the latter part of last week. Mrs, Flynn still feels the effects of a recent bite of a black widow spiaer, Mrs. Geary Feagans returned home Sunday morning from a two weeks vacation at Manzanita Lake. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Skelton, of Red Bluff were with her. Raymond Feagan motored up to the lake and returned with his mother. The Manzanita Camp offers many delightful diversions. FIRE N FACTORY STREET An alarm turned in at three o’clock this afternoon ‘brought the firemen and truck out in a hurry to extinguish a fire on Factory street near the Ernest Peterson home. The cause of the fire is unknown. It started in a little gully in grass and a few trees and was put out in a few minutes. BOXERS SIGN UP In boxing contests at the Miner Workers Protective League picnic at Lake Olmpia Wednesday Eleon Tobiassen will ‘box with Chris Paulson, Lava Cap miner; Dave Tobiassen will box with Melvin Dodge. Elton Tobiassen was on the boxing program at Forest City Sunday and his brother, Bill sang in‘the musical program. not been poker players, perhaps, nor followed the ponies. Rather they have always looked for opportunity to make thousands out of hundreds in some sort of specu. lation, Thousands of people in. their younger days have speculated in real estate, in corn, and wheat, in minig or in shares of something or other that never panned. out. They have been gulled, just as they are being gulled today, into believing they may obtain in a hard boiled world, something for nothing. They have lost their little and gained nothing. Now in their uneasy old age, they are investing small change that they sadly need, in one more get-rich-quick scheme, t the Weinman lot. Weinman. ‘Methodist church with Rev. H. H. GOLD FLAT SCHOOL — OPENS AUGUST 28 The Gold Flat school August 28, by Jos. will open it was announced today, Day, member of the schoof O. B. Lake and Irma Atkins, who were in charge last year, were reelected, FINAL DRIVE ON INITIATIVES IS BEING MADE By CLEM WHITAKER Racing against the clock, rival groups of petition solicitors are pounding the pavements in virtually every city, town and hamlet in California—in an eleventh hour, whirlwind drive to qualify referendum and recall proposals for the special election balloton November 7. Intensified during the last few days, due to the approaching Sept. 19 deadline for qualifying petitions with the Secretary of State, the bavtle for signatures is raging on all fronts, with solicitors nabbing qualified voters at nearly every street corner in the populous areas. Two separate recall petition drives, aimed at. Governor Olson, have been in progress, but petitions of one group were withdrawn when’ they were found to be faulty—and the second recall organization is still far from its goal. A gubernatorial recall, to qualify for this year’s ballot, requires the signatures of 325,00 qual. ified voters. Referendum petitions against the Atkinson oil conservation act, which were placed in circulation by oil operators favoring uncontrolled production, also appear to be running into difficulties, with more than an even chance that the action of the legislature in seeking to halt squandering of oil resources will be upheld—and that the petitions will fall to qualify. To be successful, referendum petiti¢ns this year require 132,000 signatures. Two other referendum petition movements, now in a break neck drive to get under the wire before September 19, are aimed at anti-loan shark bills passed by the legislature. Petitions also are on the streets for a proposed Daylight Savings Act, which would place California on 4 time schedule similar to that now in effect in the east, from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in September of each year. This proposval, an initiative act. has until next June to qualify, as it would not appear on the ballot until the 1940 General Election. The signatures of some 212,000 registered voters are required. The only measure already qualified for a place on the November 7 ballot are a new chiropractic act and the socalled Ham and Eggs pension scheme, But even if no other measures qualify, the special election promises to be the hottest in California’s somewhat torrid political history—for the Thirty Thursday issue is packed with enough dynamite to’ light of the entire nation. Ham and Eggs is a burning issue! DEATH SUMMONS MRS. ANNA INGOLS Mrs. Anne Christine Ingols, native of. the little town of Sebastopal . . on the San Juan Ridge, died there Saturday evening. She was the wife of Edmund Ingols. It was while going to perform the wedding service at the Weinman home at San Juan that Rev. and Mrs. H. Buckner were injured when the car turned over in Mrs. Ingols was born January 5, 1876 and educated in the Sebastopol school. She was a devout Christian and a member of the San Juan Methodist church, In addition to her husband she is survived by a sister, Miss Caroline Weinman and brother, Charles ‘A. Funeral services were held this morning in the San Juan Buckner officiating. Elton Tobiassen, Warren Goldsmith and Delbert Williams expect to attend college at Davis this.comboard. The teachers for the district; ‘. World are busily turning pages for .munity. Once they understood the rock the state and grab the spor-. iironment highly mechanized, induseducators sought means of showing ‘period’”’ how life went on before the sufficient economy. house. There was no looking on from the outside—they did the planning, marketing, budgeting, household tasks. «The expense ran about twelve dollars per child. Let their own note books go on with the story: find yourself confronted by a pump, after a little manipulation you develop a technique in pumping and sit down to dinner with an eye on the water LEARNBY DOING IS NEW SCHOOL TEACHING RULE lic information on education. Was it Saint Augustine who said that those who never stir from home read only one page of the Book of (Life? Modern schools all over the their youngsters—not necessarily the last and most inaccessible pages, for adjoinng towns and communities are still new to most of our boys and girls. England and Germany have been leaders in the use of educational excursions, at-home and abroad. Trips are part of the educational pattern in Austria, France, Italy, Russia, Poland and Japan. Naturally in a country as large as our own, travel means expenie, even when various tourist facilities chip in with rock bottom rates. But one enterprising group of sixteen boys and girls from a rural school in Bentley, Kansas, earned $500, chartered a bus, and traveled a month through eighteen states and Canada. It is becoming customary for many school: groups -to visit Washington and New York:City. The two current World’s fairs find .school children their most ardent visitors. Perhaps the greatest thrill of all comes to a city youngster who is adopted into a-farmer’s family, and for the first time takes part in sowing or harvesting crops, drawing water, cutting wood. Last fall the ninth graders of Lincoln School, an experimental school of ‘Columbia University’s Teachers College, in New York City, traveled up to the Berkshires to spend on a farm ten days which have colored the entire year’s school program. Nevar would these young visitors be more keenly aware of their fellow humans, more eager to understand ‘what makes the wheels go round.” Wheels move fnoreslowly and simply in rural districts, and fourteen year olds have a better chance to keep up with them. The expedition entailed much planning, and’ many contacts to be made in the neighboring village— with the library, with farm bureau, with owners of farms and mills, and with the citizens, particularly those familiar with the history of the comnature of this invasion they cooperated enthusiastically. On the first day of school last fall every child answered the question: “From the time you opened your eyes this morning, what did you do until you entered this room?’’ Characteristic of the answers was the following statement: ‘‘I shut off the alarm clock, closed the window, turned on the heat in the radiator, snapped on the light in the bathroom, dressed and went into the dining room. I had toast made.on an -electric toaster, milk from a_ bottle. -I rushed out and rang for the elevator, rode down to the first floor. I walked to the subway and boarded a train for school.’’ From such an en. trial, inter-dependent, .and urban, came a group of twenty five students to adventure in the country, where the shrill crow of a cock was the only alarm clock, the water remained in the well until it was pumped up vy hand, and heat came from wood crackling in a fireplace, or it didn’t come at all! Beginning to study early Amer}. can life as a prelude to the study of the present machine or power age, these children of the “push button coming of the machiine. Choice fell on a little village in western Massachusetts, well known to some of the teachers, where the people were still living in an agrarian, almost selfFor ten days they lived together in an old farmchores, and) “You look for.a faucet, only to pitcher, feeling very ing term, This is the second term for meaning of the word. They have Ham and Eggs: « young Goldsmith. This article comes from Teachers _. College, Columbia University, New . York City, as a contribution to pubAUTO TURNS OVER; DRIVER IS INJURED John Udnich of Nevada City while driving toward Grass Valley last evening failed to make the turn at Town Talk and his car ran into additch and turned over. on its top. Holmes Funeral Home ambulance responded to a call and took Udnich to Jones Memoral hospital. He was later removed to the county hospital. Superintendent R. W. Rodda stated this forenoon the man has a laceration on his head. It is expected he will be able. to leave shortly. Captain Joe Blake. investigated the accident. ARE YOU SURE YOU CAN VOTE? Are you registered? If you failed to vote in either the primary or general election of 1938, then you are not now registered. If you changed your residence since you last registered, and have not notified your county clerk, then you are not registered. And, you have only until September 28 to do it. September 28 is the last day you have to qualify for voting in the} special election which has been -called by Governor Olson for November 7. ’ Check your registration now, with your county clerk, or the deputy them being greased attend. chef and barbecue junction of the cool. vada City Shamber short time. Be on ful time. CHAMBER PICNIC WILL BE HELD AT SKILLMAN FLAT Window cards une are out announcing the big pienic, August 27, on Skillman Flat east of Nevada City on the Tahoe-Ukiah highway. gram of games will ‘be given among pig, greased pole, Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen will be the beef. Other food to be served will be beans, coffee and béer, all free to tending. The price of admission will be $1.00 per couple to adults. Minor children will be admitted free when accompanied by their parents. : Skillman Flat is a mile above the Washington down in a big shady pine coverad flat where there are tables and seats. The camp is maintained by the forest service and will be those atclean Tickets will be on sale at the Neof Commerte rooms and in business houses in a the lookout for these as you are assured of a delight-walled with stones and cement. Cutyour home. BIDS ASKED FOR WATER GATES ON SHASTA PROJECT Part of the mechanism to regulate .the flow of the Sacramentto and San Joaquin rivers at the Shasta and Friant dams ofthe Central Valley Project has been ordered by the United States Bureau of Reclamation in an invitation for bids for furnishing ten 86-inch ring seal gates. The bids are to be opened in Denver, Colo., at 2 p. m. September 12. Two of the gates, complete with frames, hoists and electric motor, are for two needle valve river control outlets through Shasta Dam which is under construction north of Redding. Shasta will hae a total of 20 outlets through the dam which can be used to regulate the Sacramento river. The other eight gates ordered, with frames, hoists and motors, are to be installed in tandem in four ot the river control outlets through the Friant Dam, soon to be constructed on the upper San Joaquin near Fresno, Calif. Bids for building Friant Dam are to be opened by the Bureau of Reclamation in Sacramento on September 7. To be included with the Friant gates are four sets of conduit lining ‘which will consist of section of rib.bed semi-steel pipe, each 99 inches outside diameter and about 44 feet in ‘length. The pipes and gate frames will be imbedded in the concrete of the dam. Friant will have a total of 12 outlets through the dam—six for river regulation, four to discharge into the Friant-Kern Canal, and two into the Madera Canal. CHAMBER TO DEDICATE PLAQUE AT PICNIC The Chamber of Cx of Commerce’ ‘at its picnic and barbecue at Skillman Flat on August 27, will dedicate a east iron plaque imbedded in a cement table, to the California public. The plaque was designed and cast by A. T. (Baldy) Fairholm and was cast through the courtesy of the ‘(Miners Foundry. <A. barbecue pit, ting table, and serving table -were also made of stones and cement through the assistance proferred by Supervisor DeWitt Nelson and Leland Smith of the national forest service. The plaque which will set in the serving table is 36 inches long by 14 inches wide, and reads: “Dedicated to the public by the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce.’’ HOUSE BURNS The forest service received a; sage that a house in Celestial Vv e , was partly. bea by fire designated, by him, who is nearest CCC BOYS HELP PUT While no fires were reported for the national forest here, headquarters continued to send men to thé est. The fire that started about the middle of last week in Fouts Springs and spread to brush and timber land still rages out of contsol. Sunday morning 15 CCC enrollees from Hobart Mills and 25 from Camp Forbes near Forest Hill and one. were sent to the same district. The trucks are to transport men about fire lines. Men have also been drawn tricts to the Mendocino national forest fire. STATE WARDEN PUTS OUT FIRE © BUG BLAZES State Fire Warden Will F. Sharpe has had a busy week end with three fires. A call came from the Lake Vera district at about noon Sunday and the blaze was under control in @ short: time. A call then came from Wolf that a fire had broken out in This was quickly extinguished. This’ morning at 10 o’clock a fire broke Lime Kiln’ district. the fires in the Lim Kiln district are season. Ranger Sharpe, crew and pumper truck responded to all three’ fives which were small. NEVADA CITY SB Miss Ellen Curtis “r returned ‘to h work in Sacramento last evening ter spending the day in this city w her mother, Mrs. C. Muscardini Clay street. Her niece, Miss Ji two eckinn vacation in Sioransiaill accompanied her here, The two gir! were in the pageant in Sacrean Thursday, Friday and Saturday ‘special event with about 200 4 in it-was held at the Junior coll and was a portion of the laste of the big centennial, Mr. and Mrs. U. S, Simons daughter, Mrs, F. Carleton. two daughters, Jeanne and Saturday after spe their cousin, Mrs (Continued on Page Three) serene. A full prohusband calling, rolling pin throwing and soft ball games. The big affair is under the auspices of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce and a splendid time is promised all who road . and scene of fires in the Mendocino forforeman were sent to the Mendocino — forest fire. Yesterday afternoon five . crew bosses and three empty trucks — from the El Dorado and Plumas disthe Lime Kiln-Clear Creek district. out on the George Cole ranch in the © Sharpe believes _ set as this is the eighteenth for the

Thinking Out Loud _By H. M. L. ciaeeninel evada City COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ugget ifiable ends. ton. From the Californian, March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives and, for just’ —Alexander ‘Hamilca ee No one can be certain that the “Ham and Eggs’ or “$30 Every Thursday” will not be enacted by the people at the polls, come November 7. All those who have been willing to think the plan through have mentally rejected as just an* other panacea with no medicinal merit. No one person will accept a promisory note to be paid in a year, and then pay four cents more in taxes than the face of the note. It just isn’t done among sane people and.we believe that the majority is sane. So that even, if adopted, it will not work because no one wants to sell a dollar’s worth of goods and then add $1.04 to it make the dollar, In effect the seller has given his goods away and then paid $1.04 for the privilege of selling the goods. If one person can’t stand this racket the whole, population of the state can stand it no better. ‘But it is not a foregone conclusion that Ham and Eggs may not be with us after November 7. There are a lot of elderly folks in California who have graduated from the Townsend class. They have dispaired of ever seeing $200 a month materalize Federal tax to provide it, and they are now enrolled in a Class conducted by certain unscrupulous circus barkers in Hollywood. By contributing dimes and _nickles enough they are deluging the state with their strange and _ curious propaganda. Their children who would like to see the old folks cared for at somebody’s else expense, they, too, are pulling with might and main, to make the dream come true at the polls. But even if Ham ang Eggs were approved, just as happened in Alberta, Canada, the scheme would fail because no one wants to wait a year for a debtor dollar and buy stamps enough to equal that dollar plus four cents. The very people ‘that will note for it will be the first to repudiate the plan, and to yammer for sound’U. S. backed money in all dealings in which they participate. : If it should pass, one shudders to think of what a Brobdingnagian jest it will be on California. From Msine’s salty coast to “where rolls the Oregon,” a guffaw, a _ belly laugh would rise in raucus volume to rend the blue firmament. Reyerberations of this mirth would crackle around the world. It would also mean another influx of elderly folk. In every state ‘‘pa’’ and “ma’’ would pack their worldly goods into the family car and hit the highway for -California which hands out $30 every Thursday. The fact that this kind of currency would have no standing . among either merchants or bankers, would not even cause them to hesitate. They could well reason that whether or no the $30 Thursday was good, the fertile brains of those who are able to gull their hundreds of _thousands into voting for Utopias of the Never Never Land, would hatch something else that might miraculously work. When thé $30 every Thursday fails, either at the polls or in practice, we may look for another scheme from the same source as this. It will make little difference to these inventors of delusion whether their scheme works’ or not, They have struck ‘‘pay dirt’’ in the credulity of thousands who believe the government owes them a living. Barnum found it first, and declared in effect that it was an inexhaustible source of riches. “One is born every minute,” said Mr. Barnum, fifty years ago. Today considering the increase in population, we would say that sixty are born every minute. -A flood of circulars, newspapers, letters comes through the mail, advocating this scheme that was ‘borrowed intact from the Alberta, Canada, where it failed miserably. It costs a heap of money to propagandize six million people in California,. no one can say how much because under present laws none may check the books of the promoters. But one thing is very certain the money is coming from the pockets of those who can least afford to spend it, elderly dreamers who have failed somehow, through génerosity, prodigality, mental lack, or effort when younger to amass a competence. One suspects that many of the converts to this gigantic hoax, have been habitual gamblers all their lives; not gamblers, perhaps, in the usual through a_ Vol. 13, No. 65. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIF sor hal The Gold Center MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1939. SUPERVISORS TO SPONSOR DAY ATSTATEFAIR SACRAMENTO, Aug.: 14.—Members of the board of supervisors of Nevada county will sponsor a Nevada County Day, September 9 at the California State Fair and arrange for a caravan to the grounds, including school buses for children, Secretary Manager Robert Muckler was informed. A tentative committee to handle the arrangements will meet next week. Members of the committee will include’ the Board of Supervisors, W. W. Esterly, Mayor John R. Thomas, Dan Stewart, and Dave Baun of Grass Valley; Mayor Ben Hall, Emmett Gallagher, H. F, Sofje and Fred Cassidy of Nevada City; W. W. White, and Clyde Edmunds of. Truc. ‘kee; and Miles Tilden and Mrs. W. A. Cunningham of North San Juan. HUNDREDS ATTEND HOME COMING AT FOREST HILL Several hundred. 3 peopte motored to Forest City above Alleghany for the big annual “Home Coming” week end. The residents of the little town had prepared a royal welcome for all of those who come. There was dancing Saturday evening and Sunday was occupied with games, amateur hour, swimming contests, boxing, foot rates, until late evening ‘when visitors from all over the state started returning. Jamés Williams is acting chief of police for Chief ‘Garfield . Robson while he is away on his two weeks ‘vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Robson ars visiting relatives in Santa Rosa and it is understood they will go to the fair on Treasure Island before they return. Max Ruth returned home Saturday from a three weeks visit with relatives in LeGrande, Oregon. Mrs. Rosie Fradelizio and daughter, Miss Mamie Fradelizio, and» Miss Ida Pratti, left this morning for a week in San Francisco and at the fair. Miss Pratti is stenographer in the Plaza Grocery store and has a week’s vacation. Mrs. Mamie Flynn is visiting with her sister in Grass Valley. Her little niece, Doris Brown, had her tonsils removed the latter part of last week. Mrs, Flynn still feels the effects of a recent bite of a black widow spiaer, Mrs. Geary Feagans returned home Sunday morning from a two weeks vacation at Manzanita Lake. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Skelton, of Red Bluff were with her. Raymond Feagan motored up to the lake and returned with his mother. The Manzanita Camp offers many delightful diversions. FIRE N FACTORY STREET An alarm turned in at three o’clock this afternoon ‘brought the firemen and truck out in a hurry to extinguish a fire on Factory street near the Ernest Peterson home. The cause of the fire is unknown. It started in a little gully in grass and a few trees and was put out in a few minutes. BOXERS SIGN UP In boxing contests at the Miner Workers Protective League picnic at Lake Olmpia Wednesday Eleon Tobiassen will ‘box with Chris Paulson, Lava Cap miner; Dave Tobiassen will box with Melvin Dodge. Elton Tobiassen was on the boxing program at Forest City Sunday and his brother, Bill sang in‘the musical program. not been poker players, perhaps, nor followed the ponies. Rather they have always looked for opportunity to make thousands out of hundreds in some sort of specu. lation, Thousands of people in. their younger days have speculated in real estate, in corn, and wheat, in minig or in shares of something or other that never panned. out. They have been gulled, just as they are being gulled today, into believing they may obtain in a hard boiled world, something for nothing. They have lost their little and gained nothing. Now in their uneasy old age, they are investing small change that they sadly need, in one more get-rich-quick scheme, t the Weinman lot. Weinman. ‘Methodist church with Rev. H. H. GOLD FLAT SCHOOL — OPENS AUGUST 28 The Gold Flat school August 28, by Jos. will open it was announced today, Day, member of the schoof O. B. Lake and Irma Atkins, who were in charge last year, were reelected, FINAL DRIVE ON INITIATIVES IS BEING MADE By CLEM WHITAKER Racing against the clock, rival groups of petition solicitors are pounding the pavements in virtually every city, town and hamlet in California—in an eleventh hour, whirlwind drive to qualify referendum and recall proposals for the special election balloton November 7. Intensified during the last few days, due to the approaching Sept. 19 deadline for qualifying petitions with the Secretary of State, the bavtle for signatures is raging on all fronts, with solicitors nabbing qualified voters at nearly every street corner in the populous areas. Two separate recall petition drives, aimed at. Governor Olson, have been in progress, but petitions of one group were withdrawn when’ they were found to be faulty—and the second recall organization is still far from its goal. A gubernatorial recall, to qualify for this year’s ballot, requires the signatures of 325,00 qual. ified voters. Referendum petitions against the Atkinson oil conservation act, which were placed in circulation by oil operators favoring uncontrolled production, also appear to be running into difficulties, with more than an even chance that the action of the legislature in seeking to halt squandering of oil resources will be upheld—and that the petitions will fall to qualify. To be successful, referendum petiti¢ns this year require 132,000 signatures. Two other referendum petition movements, now in a break neck drive to get under the wire before September 19, are aimed at anti-loan shark bills passed by the legislature. Petitions also are on the streets for a proposed Daylight Savings Act, which would place California on 4 time schedule similar to that now in effect in the east, from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in September of each year. This proposval, an initiative act. has until next June to qualify, as it would not appear on the ballot until the 1940 General Election. The signatures of some 212,000 registered voters are required. The only measure already qualified for a place on the November 7 ballot are a new chiropractic act and the socalled Ham and Eggs pension scheme, But even if no other measures qualify, the special election promises to be the hottest in California’s somewhat torrid political history—for the Thirty Thursday issue is packed with enough dynamite to’ light of the entire nation. Ham and Eggs is a burning issue! DEATH SUMMONS MRS. ANNA INGOLS Mrs. Anne Christine Ingols, native of. the little town of Sebastopal . . on the San Juan Ridge, died there Saturday evening. She was the wife of Edmund Ingols. It was while going to perform the wedding service at the Weinman home at San Juan that Rev. and Mrs. H. Buckner were injured when the car turned over in Mrs. Ingols was born January 5, 1876 and educated in the Sebastopol school. She was a devout Christian and a member of the San Juan Methodist church, In addition to her husband she is survived by a sister, Miss Caroline Weinman and brother, Charles ‘A.

Funeral services were held this morning in the San Juan Buckner officiating. Elton Tobiassen, Warren Goldsmith and Delbert Williams expect to attend college at Davis this.comboard. The teachers for the district; ‘. World are busily turning pages for .munity. Once they understood the rock the state and grab the spor-. iironment highly mechanized, induseducators sought means of showing ‘period’”’ how life went on before the sufficient economy. house. There was no looking on from the outside—they did the planning, marketing, budgeting, household tasks. «The expense ran about twelve dollars per child. Let their own note books go on with the story: find yourself confronted by a pump, after a little manipulation you develop a technique in pumping and sit down to dinner with an eye on the water LEARNBY DOING IS NEW SCHOOL TEACHING RULE lic information on education. Was it Saint Augustine who said that those who never stir from home read only one page of the Book of (Life? Modern schools all over the their youngsters—not necessarily the last and most inaccessible pages, for adjoinng towns and communities are still new to most of our boys and girls. England and Germany have been leaders in the use of educational excursions, at-home and abroad. Trips are part of the educational pattern in Austria, France, Italy, Russia, Poland and Japan. Naturally in a country as large as our own, travel means expenie, even when various tourist facilities chip in with rock bottom rates. But one enterprising group of sixteen boys and girls from a rural school in Bentley, Kansas, earned $500, chartered a bus, and traveled a month through eighteen states and Canada. It is becoming customary for many school: groups -to visit Washington and New York:City. The two current World’s fairs find .school children their most ardent visitors. Perhaps the greatest thrill of all comes to a city youngster who is adopted into a-farmer’s family, and for the first time takes part in sowing or harvesting crops, drawing water, cutting wood. Last fall the ninth graders of Lincoln School, an experimental school of ‘Columbia University’s Teachers College, in New York City, traveled up to the Berkshires to spend on a farm ten days which have colored the entire year’s school program. Nevar would these young visitors be more keenly aware of their fellow humans, more eager to understand ‘what makes the wheels go round.” Wheels move fnoreslowly and simply in rural districts, and fourteen year olds have a better chance to keep up with them. The expedition entailed much planning, and’ many contacts to be made in the neighboring village— with the library, with farm bureau, with owners of farms and mills, and with the citizens, particularly those familiar with the history of the comnature of this invasion they cooperated enthusiastically. On the first day of school last fall every child answered the question: “From the time you opened your eyes this morning, what did you do until you entered this room?’’ Characteristic of the answers was the following statement: ‘‘I shut off the alarm clock, closed the window, turned on the heat in the radiator, snapped on the light in the bathroom, dressed and went into the dining room. I had toast made.on an -electric toaster, milk from a_ bottle. -I rushed out and rang for the elevator, rode down to the first floor. I walked to the subway and boarded a train for school.’’ From such an en. trial, inter-dependent, .and urban, came a group of twenty five students to adventure in the country, where the shrill crow of a cock was the only alarm clock, the water remained in the well until it was pumped up vy hand, and heat came from wood crackling in a fireplace, or it didn’t come at all! Beginning to study early Amer}. can life as a prelude to the study of the present machine or power age, these children of the “push button coming of the machiine. Choice fell on a little village in western Massachusetts, well known to some of the teachers, where the people were still living in an agrarian, almost selfFor ten days they lived together in an old farmchores, and) “You look for.a faucet, only to pitcher, feeling very ing term, This is the second term for meaning of the word. They have Ham and Eggs: « young Goldsmith. This article comes from Teachers _. College, Columbia University, New . York City, as a contribution to pubAUTO TURNS OVER; DRIVER IS INJURED John Udnich of Nevada City while driving toward Grass Valley last evening failed to make the turn at Town Talk and his car ran into additch and turned over. on its top. Holmes Funeral Home ambulance responded to a call and took Udnich to Jones Memoral hospital. He was later removed to the county hospital. Superintendent R. W. Rodda stated this forenoon the man has a laceration on his head. It is expected he will be able. to leave shortly. Captain Joe Blake. investigated the accident. ARE YOU SURE YOU CAN VOTE? Are you registered? If you failed to vote in either the primary or general election of 1938, then you are not now registered. If you changed your residence since you last registered, and have not notified your county clerk, then you are not registered. And, you have only until September 28 to do it. September 28 is the last day you have to qualify for voting in the} special election which has been -called by Governor Olson for November 7. ’ Check your registration now, with your county clerk, or the deputy them being greased attend. chef and barbecue junction of the cool. vada City Shamber short time. Be on ful time. CHAMBER PICNIC WILL BE HELD AT SKILLMAN FLAT Window cards une are out announcing the big pienic, August 27, on Skillman Flat east of Nevada City on the Tahoe-Ukiah highway. gram of games will ‘be given among pig, greased pole, Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen will be the beef. Other food to be served will be beans, coffee and béer, all free to tending. The price of admission will be $1.00 per couple to adults. Minor children will be admitted free when accompanied by their parents. : Skillman Flat is a mile above the Washington down in a big shady pine coverad flat where there are tables and seats. The camp is maintained by the forest service and will be those atclean Tickets will be on sale at the Neof Commerte rooms and in business houses in a the lookout for these as you are assured of a delight-walled with stones and cement. Cutyour home. BIDS ASKED FOR WATER GATES ON SHASTA PROJECT Part of the mechanism to regulate .the flow of the Sacramentto and San Joaquin rivers at the Shasta and Friant dams ofthe Central Valley Project has been ordered by the United States Bureau of Reclamation in an invitation for bids for furnishing ten 86-inch ring seal gates. The bids are to be opened in Denver, Colo., at 2 p. m. September 12. Two of the gates, complete with frames, hoists and electric motor, are for two needle valve river control outlets through Shasta Dam which is under construction north of Redding. Shasta will hae a total of 20 outlets through the dam which can be used to regulate the Sacramento river. The other eight gates ordered, with frames, hoists and motors, are to be installed in tandem in four ot the river control outlets through the Friant Dam, soon to be constructed on the upper San Joaquin near Fresno, Calif. Bids for building Friant Dam are to be opened by the Bureau of Reclamation in Sacramento on September 7. To be included with the Friant gates are four sets of conduit lining ‘which will consist of section of rib.bed semi-steel pipe, each 99 inches outside diameter and about 44 feet in ‘length. The pipes and gate frames will be imbedded in the concrete of the dam. Friant will have a total of 12 outlets through the dam—six for river regulation, four to discharge into the Friant-Kern Canal, and two into the Madera Canal. CHAMBER TO DEDICATE PLAQUE AT PICNIC The Chamber of Cx of Commerce’ ‘at its picnic and barbecue at Skillman Flat on August 27, will dedicate a east iron plaque imbedded in a cement table, to the California public. The plaque was designed and cast by A. T. (Baldy) Fairholm and was cast through the courtesy of the ‘(Miners Foundry. <A. barbecue pit, ting table, and serving table -were also made of stones and cement through the assistance proferred by Supervisor DeWitt Nelson and Leland Smith of the national forest service. The plaque which will set in the serving table is 36 inches long by 14 inches wide, and reads: “Dedicated to the public by the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce.’’ HOUSE BURNS The forest service received a; sage that a house in Celestial Vv e , was partly. bea by fire designated, by him, who is nearest CCC BOYS HELP PUT While no fires were reported for the national forest here, headquarters continued to send men to thé est. The fire that started about the middle of last week in Fouts Springs and spread to brush and timber land still rages out of contsol. Sunday morning 15 CCC enrollees from Hobart Mills and 25 from Camp Forbes near Forest Hill and one. were sent to the same district. The trucks are to transport men about fire lines. Men have also been drawn tricts to the Mendocino national forest fire. STATE WARDEN PUTS OUT FIRE © BUG BLAZES State Fire Warden Will F. Sharpe has had a busy week end with three fires. A call came from the Lake Vera district at about noon Sunday and the blaze was under control in @ short: time. A call then came from Wolf that a fire had broken out in This was quickly extinguished. This’ morning at 10 o’clock a fire broke Lime Kiln’ district. the fires in the Lim Kiln district are season. Ranger Sharpe, crew and pumper truck responded to all three’ fives which were small. NEVADA CITY SB Miss Ellen Curtis “r returned ‘to h work in Sacramento last evening ter spending the day in this city w her mother, Mrs. C. Muscardini Clay street. Her niece, Miss Ji two eckinn vacation in Sioransiaill accompanied her here, The two gir! were in the pageant in Sacrean Thursday, Friday and Saturday ‘special event with about 200 4 in it-was held at the Junior coll and was a portion of the laste of the big centennial, Mr. and Mrs. U. S, Simons daughter, Mrs, F. Carleton. two daughters, Jeanne and Saturday after spe their cousin, Mrs (Continued on Page Three) serene. A full prohusband calling, rolling pin throwing and soft ball games. The big affair is under the auspices of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce and a splendid time is promised all who road . and scene of fires in the Mendocino forforeman were sent to the Mendocino — forest fire. Yesterday afternoon five . crew bosses and three empty trucks — from the El Dorado and Plumas disthe Lime Kiln-Clear Creek district. out on the George Cole ranch in the © Sharpe believes _ set as this is the eighteenth for the