December 24, 1937 (6 pages)

EON Bee: ia Se IRE: nA t Les d y a . { STtTmeAe By H. M. L. Jr. \_ URURLRLRLRLRLTERL ASRS: The special session of Congress is now closed.No laws were enacted. The Congress failed to do anything. j@{he reason as everyone knows, consideration of his legislative pets. Two of these pets, the wage-hour Rou, and the crop-control bill, have “\much in common. Both, if passed would be far reaching and revolutionary in effect. Both are dreamchildren of the President’s left-wing advisors. Both are so vast in their proposed effect, that:.even their most enthusiastic supporters hedged when asked to explain them. Both bills are intended to benefit huge general classes of people, namely the industrial workers and the farmers. The administration insisted that these bills be enacted, specifically for the benefit of these two groups. There are, in each of the groups. which would purportedly, benefit most by the effect of these bills, huge groups who are violently opposed to its passage. The nation, as a whole, is very . dubious about the value of these pills. Roosevelt, through his. minions in Congress, forced valuable legislation to be laid aside while Congress considered the notorious crop-control and wage-hour: white elephants. . The present Depression is brightly called a Recession by the master of; the happy phrase in the White House. It serves his purpose to minimize the present serious condition, for he is the cause of it. At the op-! ening of the present session of Con, gress a bill for tax-revision was presented. Every one was in favor of this bill, even the President. The tax revision bill, among other benefits, would have removed the terrifically unpopular undistributed profits tax, a friendless burden, which has been one of the major grievances of business. If the tax revision bill had been passed and assurances of cooperation given to industry by the administrawould tion, the present recession have been on very much smaller scale. But, no, the President must have Congress consider his personal pets. The President tries to satisfy his personal wish, much like a Depression. We. are our constitutional guarantees freedom, resulted in nothing worse than a mild second depression. Dictatorships boast they have no Recessions or Depressions. Dictators sneer at the poor bumbling capitalist nations. Everyone in their country, they say, is employed and happy. It is true that there is little unemployment in dictatorships. It is also true that the successful workers in Russia, Germany, Japan, and Italy, has a standard of living several degrees lower than the relief worker in this country! And the average worker in this country is very well-to-do indeed, according to the Fascist scale of living. According to the sonal wars of their ruler. The fact that they were in no way necessary for the country’s welfare may not dim the bereaved mother’s pleasure at the government’s recompense» for her loss. To mothers who have suffered the agonies of child-birth during a number of years, Il Duce himThe express purpose is to provide more soldiers, cannon fodder for the Duce’s ambition, Possibly Mussolini gives prizes to lucky mothers who have lost the most sons by war-death. It would be appropriate. But the fascist people are/visibly happy. If they show signs of unhappiness they become invisible —they vanish from sight. They are self presents awards. ‘ is ‘that the President insisted on the so the country suffers a Recession that feels very having a mild taste of personal government. Much of the rest of the world has been living under a one hundred per cent personal government for some time. Our Personal Government has, restrained by of government press, which is the only press in dictatored countries, they have ample employment and few starve; therefore, everyone is happy and content. Possibly an Italian mother who has three:sons killed in a war is happy. Perhaps the bit of tinsel .given her by the government erases the terrible scar of her loss. They may have died slowly by poison gas in a few weeks of torture—their lungs slowly eaten away; or luckily they may have been killed by a bullet in the stomach. af~ ter-only a.few.days.of wracking pain. Ttaly’s last two wars have been perwith good motives and for just5 ifiable ends. — Alexander HamilCOVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA 4 ene sana Nevada City Nugget From the Californian, March 15, 1848: Vol. 11, No. 102. The County Seat Paper NEVADA Cll). CALIFORNIA “ “The Gold Center FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1937. GENEROUS SANTA CLAUS THRILLS ‘DOWNIEVILLE Twenty automobiles ‘carrying a hundred citizens and entertainers from Nevada City, Grass Valley, Auburn and Marysville took the ‘West road, to Downieville Tuesday that flooda Christmas its May iafternoon, and ‘helped wrecked town snatch victory from this disaster for children. A toreh light through the streets, after dark, with railroad fusees substituted for the old time torches, and the Auburn Glee club, out in full foree, sang Christmas carols as they marched. Eventually the crowds gathered in Memorial Hall and there Santa Claus began his benign reign. The ‘high schools boys and girls ot Downieville were each presented with a sweater and the girls with overshoes, as well as candy and oranges galore. For the smaller tads there was a_ great ‘Abundance of toys, candy and bright red apples and oranges. ; Judge Raymond Mcintosh in a . moving address, thanked the four (cities for their generous action in helping Santa Claus fo regainhis lost province in the Sierras. Nevada City’s share~in the enter'tainment program was carried by Tony Cartoscelli, who rendered two selections on his piano concertina, and by Betty Andrews and Gloria Gilgen, two tap dancers who delighted the youngsters with their lively performance, The following is a list of those in Nevada City who contributed to the Downieville Santa Claus fund: Bobbie and Mary Lee Carr, Kopps Bakery; Fred Conti, N. ¥.Hotel: . Leong Geong Grocery, Mr. Gallaghler, Save More Store; Frank Finne. gan, A. Hartung, Nevada City Drug Co.; H. A. Curnow, E. M. Rector, John J. Fortier, Twin City Clothing Co.; Cardinal Store, Geo. Hitchens; C. M. Hing, Sun Grocery Store; Mrs. Shields, Style Shop; Mrs. Edith Pettengell, Mrs. Ted Janiss, H. M. Leete, Penrose Grocery, HE. Schreiber, William R. Young, James F. Colley, Ramsey’s Cafe, Boston Mercantile Co., R. E. Harris Drug Store, W. C. Dodge, Purity Store, Safeway Stores, Dickerman Drug Store, The Bottle Shop, Mary Meservey,: Betty Martin West, Lace House, Dollar Store, Gene’s Cafe, Plaza Grocery Store, Frank Davies, Union Ice Co., Cc. W. Heiter, C. F. Tomkins, TJ. N. Ott, DeWitt Nelson, Jim Miller, Po2 G. Scadden, Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Goyne, Clyde Gwin, Miss S. A. Brown, S&S. Lee Leiter, one dollar; Bank of America donations in bank lobby, $10.46; donations made at newspapers, procession wound $10.85; Channel Pie, 25c, National Meat Market, 50c; Tom Jennings, Mrs. Eva Clutter; Rollie Wright, $2.00; John W. O’Neill, Union Hotel, Jim Miller; 50c; Club — Pool Hall, $2.00. Total, $75.55. MINERS RECEIVE CHRISTMAS BONUS Miners yesterday received their half monthly pay checks a day or two early in order to accomodate their needs for the holiday. The Newmont, Lava Gap-and other corporations enclosed a Christmas bonus of $25 in the pay envelope. GIFT FOR “COUNTRY BOY OF COLUMBIA HILL” 1S DELIVERED The postoffice staff met with a very knotty problem yesterday. A gift box was received rom the Sunnyside Nursery addressed only to the “Country Boy from Columbia With.” prominent. citizens who might After the consideration of several ‘fit that designation, a vote was taken among the postal staff with Mrs. Betty Martin West, postmaster, presiding, and it was decided that Horace Curnow was the addressee entitled to the delivery of this gift, and when REMINGTON HILL NOT ENGAGED IN HYDRAULICKING Owners of the Remington Hill lease, Messrs. J. H. Scales, J. H. Seales, Jr., and Wm. Forkner yesterday called at the Nugget office to deny a report recently published that they were hylraulicking gravel there. They state emphatically that such is not the case. The P. G. & E.-holds an injunction against any hydraulicking on the Bear river watershed and the lessees of Remington Hill thave no intention of violating the injunetion. What they have been doing, Mr. Forkner states, is some ground sluicing and gravel testing. Debris from this minor operation is cared for in their own debris dams. They report that the tests thus far made have been good, and they hope te have the injunction lifted soon in so far as it pertains to their ground. No water supply of any amount is now available owing to the poor condition of their ditches. 0.D. WOODMANIS . CALLED TO REST Wednesday 11:26 Oliver D. Woodman 79 years of age, well known and _ highly eorsones morning at Nevada Ctiy citnzen passed away at . the Nevada City anitarium following . t an illness of several weeks. . Deceased was born in Maine but came west as a young man. For many years he has been engaged in the real estate business in Nevada City and has made a very wide circle of friends here. He was always considered one of Nevada City’s best boosters. His pleasantness and kindness was manifested in many. ways, especially in -doing favors for oth-. ers. He was a great friend of the var-ious groups which camped at Lake Vera and the members of the camps were very fond of him and _ often made him an honored guest at their affairs. Deceased is survived by one brother, Charles Woodman of Auburn, Maine. Funeral services will be held . Monday afternoon at the Holmes . ig The Rev. Elwood Gray will officiate. Funeral Home chapel at 2 a . Dr. Tobias Tells Of Old German Customs — at Christmas Season The Rotary Club celebrated its, Christmas luncheon yesterday with Yuletide songs and an address by Dr. Paula Tobias of Town Talk on the Christmas traditions and customs of Germany. Dr. Tobias and her husband, Dr. Fritz Tobias, graduates of Heidelberg, formerly lived in Germany. Clyde Gwin gave an interesting report of the Downieville Christmas tree celebration in which Nevada City participated with Grass Valley, Auburn and Marysville Oscar Odegaard, following Dr. Tobias, recounted some of the customs, he remembered from his grandfather’s tales, of Christmas in Norway. DeWitt Nelson, chairman of the day, introduced Dr. Tobias. In Germany, Dr. Tobias said, the Christmas season is celebrated for weeks in advance of Christmas day. This is due partly to the fact that in Germany, the cold sets in earlier than in California, and fall colors do not merge with the winter season as they do in our landscapes. On the fourth Sunday before Christmas a candle is lighted and placed in a spruce wreath, and each succeeding Sunday a candle is added until four candles are burning in the wreath. The mingled scent of beeswax candles and the woody odor of the spruce are intimately bound up, Dr. Tobias said, with the German Christmas and its background. Little Christmas figures of angels in gilt and colors, upholding a tiny Christmas candle, are placed about the rooms, and groups of beautiful little statuettes of the traditional figures in the Nativity grace window sills and mantels, also illumined by soft burning candles. A few days before Christmas a traditional St. Nicholas makes the rounds of the homes in the village and carefully inquires into the conduct of each boy and girl during the year, whether or not they have gotten good grades in school, and finally, just what it is they desire fer Christmas. Their answers are all carefully recorded. Feasting is a large share of the The most widely read newspaper score of languages the world over. Ba response to the following letter: say there is no Santa Claus. Papa it’s so.’’ Please tell me the truth, warming up to a real opportunity. other newspaper story ever written in the exact text: Virginia your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skeptism of a skeptical.age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can _be which is not comprehensible by -their little minds. All minds, Virginia, pecateoad) they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared ~with the boundless world about him ,as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how deary would be the world if ‘there were no * Santa Claus! It° would be as dreary as if be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills-the world would be extinguished. , i Not believe in Santa Claus! You ‘(Continued on Page Two) . office staff turned out to be right. he received it; the guess of the’ postmight as well not believe in fairies! Is There a Santa Claus? years ago in The New York Sun and since that time has been quoted in a reprints the famous “‘answer to Virginia”’ Dear Editor: I am eight. years old. Some Frank P. Church, the editorial writer who was assigned the task of answering Virginia, at first disdained the job as trivial. He took the letter and returned to his desk with an air of resignation, but soon found himself In a short time he had produced the article which has probably been reprinted more millions of times than any season approaches without bringing to The Sun hundreds of requests for ‘ceive or imagine all there were no Virginias. There would editorial ever written appeared 36 ch year, at Christmas time The Sun which was originally written in of my little friends says, “If you gee it in The Sun, is there a Santa Claus? VIRGINA O’HANLON. any language. Even yet, no holiday to watch in all the ‘chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even'if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody seés Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no: proof that they are not there.Nobody ean conthe. wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. “You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes-the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is is all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thous-and years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. southern limits. son, Lewellyn Wanamake, and three sisters, Mrs. John Hicks, German Christmas. The housewife mixes a batter for the great cake overspread with prunes or _ other dried \fruits, which have been carefully treasured for this special cake, and 2 o‘clock in the morning she takes her\cake to the bakery in-the village, where all the news of roundabout is retailed, and at 6 o’clock in the morning returns with the fresh cake in time for the family breakfast. She then begins the days fes-tivities as though she had not been up all night. ee The German Christmas bird, Dr. Tobias recounted, is not the turkey as in this country but roast goose stuffed with apples and chestnuts. Friends visit from house to house, exchange greetings and sample the Christmas feast each home provides. This country has one special custom Germany has not, and that is the live} and beautifully decorated outdoor . Christmas trees seen in private gar-. dens, though on high peaks in the! German forest oceasionaly big trees . are lighted for the pleasure of the} country folks in the vicinity. Dr. . Tobias recalled that when she and . her_husband first arrived in San. Francisco two years ago just before . Christmas, ‘friends took them for a motor ride about the city and to her), great delight showed them the trees . shining in many a garden. i le THUGS WANTED HERE, FOUND IN. NEVADA PRISON A trip taken a few days ago by Councilman James Penrose and Police Chief Garfield Robson, to Reno, Carson City and Virginia City, brought to light the fact that justice has overtaken the two thugs who three weeks ago held up Alfred Shroyer, nightman at the Nevada City Garafe, robbed the till of $35 and kidnaped Shroyer for a ride almost to the Five Mile House, where they turned him out to make his way back, on foot. While in Carson City, Robsen and Penrose called on.the warden at Nevada State Prison and learned that two men, Milton Effmah, a half beed, and Elmer E. Clark, both former inmates of San Quentin, after a series of gas station robberies in Reno, and following the hold-up of a cafe and bar, had been arrested, tried speedily, convicted and had just begun to serve sentences in the Nevada prison of from 5 to 10 years. Descriptions given him by Shroyer enabled Robson to identify the two men. A day or two later a federal officer called at the Nevada City Garage and showed Shroyer pictures of the two men, which he was able to identify immediately as the two who abdueted him. In the case of Effman and Clark, justice overtook them speedily, since it was barely three weeks since the Nevada City Garage robbery, that they were caught, tried and sentenced in the state of Nevada. DEATH SUMMONS . MRS. WANAMAKE Mrs. been critically ill in a Grass Valley Mamie Wanamake, who has hospital for several weeks, passed away yesterday morning. Of a gentle disposition, her greatest joy was-doing kindly deeds and her passing is mourned by all who knew her. She was a native of You Bet east of Nevada City, and came with her parents to this city as a small child to live first on Bee street and then to the present house on the lower Grass Valley road at Nevada City’s Left to mourn her passing are a Mrs. Ed Doyle, Oakland, Grass Valley and Mrs. Pearl Barker of Nevada City. The remains are at Holmes Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock Rev. Charles Washburn will officiate. Interment will be in Pine Grove cemetery. ROSECRUCIAN BUILDING in the chapel of the funeral home.! NOVEMBER GAS TAX $4208.36 + = SACRAMENTO, Dec. 23.—Income from California’s gasoline tax continued to gain during November, the state board of equalization reported today. ‘ The tax, assessed against the sale of 140, 281,207 gallons of gasoline, amounted to $4,208,436.21 for the month of November, a gain of 1.90 per cent over the same month of the previous year and slightly under the tax of $4,308,581.28 reported for October, 1937. The -November income brought the total gasoline tax collections up to $47,177,097.04 for the calendar year and bore out predictions of board of equalization officials that the revenue from the tax during 1937 would be in excess of $50,000,006 HEAVY SLAB FALLS AND KILLS MINER The remains of Rinaldo W. MeConnell who was killed in. an accident at the Golden Center mine in Grass Valley on Tuesday morning at 8 o’clock have been shipped to Canada and will arrive in Toronto to"COMPLETED IN TWO DAYS ‘Members of the Rosecrucian Hclesian in this area will be able to enjoy Christmas. services their own building Friday evening, December 24. A 36 by 50 foot building was started Tuesday and will be completed Friday. It is being built east of the Veterans Memorial building in Grass Valley. Dr. J. L. Hirsch of Grass Valley is the authorized lecturer and will give the Christmas service. There.are quite a number of members in this district. RAINFALL FOR SEASON in Snow You might get your papa to hire men NOW TOTALS 24 INCHES A surprise storm ‘visited this area Wednesday afternoon leaving .60 of an inch of rain in a heavy downpour of a few hours. This new storm, added to the previous rainfall, brought the seasonal rainfall to 24 inches. fell Wednesday in the high mountains. The stage driver out of Washington stated there were five and a half inches of new snow at the junction of the Washington and Tahoe-Ukiah highways yesterday morning and it fell as far down as the Five Mile House. Several inches of sonw ‘fell in Graniteville and Ateghany. . : day. The widow Mrs. Mary McCon; nell and four children have left for . Toronto for the funeral services and . burial. Deceased was struck by a fall. ing slab as he stopped to inspect the . work at the No. 2 stope on the 1200 level. McConnell died instantly when the heavy slab fell upon him from the hanging wall. Dan Nuttall and Bob Maynard were standing within a few feet of McConnell when the slab fell but they were powerless to help him. : Deceased was a native of Ontario, ployed by the Cooley Butler interests in the Lake Superior mining district and came to Grass Valley two boss at the Golden Center mine. He was in jhis fortieth year at the time of his death. He built a home at 337 South Auburn street in Grass Valley ‘and he with his wife and four chilcivic life, of the community being esPatrick’s Catholic church. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Mary Connell; four children, James, Catherine, 14; Lillian, 11 9; his mother, Mrs. = . The Liberty of the Press consists in the right to publish the Truth, ee es } Canada and had’ formerly been em-_ and a half years ago to be a shift — dren had taken an active part in the . pecially active in the work of St. _

EON Bee: ia Se IRE: nA t Les d y a . { STtTmeAe By H. M. L. Jr. \_ URURLRLRLRLRLTERL ASRS: The special session of Congress is now closed.No laws were enacted. The Congress failed to do anything. j@{he reason as everyone knows, consideration of his legislative pets. Two of these pets, the wage-hour Rou, and the crop-control bill, have “\much in common. Both, if passed would be far reaching and revolutionary in effect. Both are dreamchildren of the President’s left-wing advisors. Both are so vast in their proposed effect, that:.even their most enthusiastic supporters hedged when asked to explain them. Both bills are intended to benefit huge general classes of people, namely the industrial workers and the farmers. The administration insisted that these bills be enacted, specifically for the benefit of these two groups. There are, in each of the groups. which would purportedly, benefit most by the effect of these bills, huge groups who are violently opposed to its passage. The nation, as a whole, is very . dubious about the value of these pills. Roosevelt, through his. minions in Congress, forced valuable legislation to be laid aside while Congress considered the notorious crop-control and wage-hour: white elephants. . The present Depression is brightly called a Recession by the master of; the happy phrase in the White House. It serves his purpose to minimize the present serious condition, for he is the cause of it. At the op-! ening of the present session of Con, gress a bill for tax-revision was presented. Every one was in favor of this bill, even the President. The tax revision bill, among other benefits, would have removed the terrifically unpopular undistributed profits tax, a friendless burden, which has been one of the major grievances of business. If the tax revision bill had been passed and assurances of cooperation given to industry by the administrawould tion, the present recession have been on very much smaller scale. But, no, the President must have Congress consider his personal pets. The President tries to satisfy his personal wish, much like a Depression. We. are our constitutional guarantees freedom, resulted in nothing worse than a mild second depression. Dictatorships boast they have no Recessions or Depressions. Dictators sneer at the poor bumbling capitalist nations. Everyone in their country, they say, is employed and happy. It is true that there is little unemployment in dictatorships. It is also true that the successful workers in Russia, Germany, Japan, and Italy, has a standard of living several degrees lower than the relief worker in this country! And the average worker in this country is very well-to-do indeed, according to the Fascist scale of living. According to the sonal wars of their ruler. The fact that they were in no way necessary for the country’s welfare may not dim the bereaved mother’s pleasure at the government’s recompense» for her loss. To mothers who have suffered the agonies of child-birth during a number of years, Il Duce himThe express purpose is to provide more soldiers, cannon fodder for the Duce’s ambition, Possibly Mussolini gives prizes to lucky mothers who have lost the most sons by war-death. It would be appropriate. But the fascist people are/visibly happy. If they show signs of unhappiness they become invisible —they vanish from sight. They are self presents awards. ‘ is ‘that the President insisted on the so the country suffers a Recession that feels very having a mild taste of personal government. Much of the rest of the world has been living under a one hundred per cent personal government for some time. Our Personal Government has, restrained by of government press, which is the only press in dictatored countries, they have ample employment and few starve; therefore, everyone is happy and content. Possibly an Italian mother who has three:sons killed in a war is happy. Perhaps the bit of tinsel .given her by the government erases the terrible scar of her loss. They may have died slowly by poison gas in a few weeks of torture—their lungs slowly eaten away; or luckily they may have been killed by a bullet in the stomach. af~ ter-only a.few.days.of wracking pain. Ttaly’s last two wars have been perwith good motives and for just5 ifiable ends. — Alexander HamilCOVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA 4 ene sana Nevada City Nugget From the Californian, March 15, 1848: Vol. 11, No. 102.. The County Seat Paper NEVADA Cll). CALIFORNIA “ “The Gold Center FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1937. GENEROUS SANTA CLAUS THRILLS ‘DOWNIEVILLE Twenty automobiles ‘carrying a hundred citizens and entertainers from Nevada City, Grass Valley, Auburn and Marysville took the ‘West road, to Downieville Tuesday that flooda Christmas its May iafternoon, and ‘helped wrecked town snatch victory from this disaster for children. A toreh light through the streets, after dark, with railroad fusees substituted for the old time torches, and the Auburn Glee club, out in full foree, sang Christmas carols as they marched. Eventually the crowds gathered in Memorial Hall and there Santa Claus began his benign reign. The ‘high schools boys and girls ot Downieville were each presented with a sweater and the girls with overshoes, as well as candy and oranges galore. For the smaller tads there was a_ great ‘Abundance of toys, candy and bright red apples and oranges. ; Judge Raymond Mcintosh in a . moving address, thanked the four (cities for their generous action in helping Santa Claus fo regainhis lost province in the Sierras. Nevada City’s share~in the enter'tainment program was carried by Tony Cartoscelli, who rendered two selections on his piano concertina, and by Betty Andrews and Gloria Gilgen, two tap dancers who delighted the youngsters with their lively performance, The following is a list of those in Nevada City who contributed to the Downieville Santa Claus fund: Bobbie and Mary Lee Carr, Kopps Bakery; Fred Conti, N. ¥.Hotel: . Leong Geong Grocery, Mr. Gallaghler, Save More Store; Frank Finne. gan, A. Hartung, Nevada City Drug Co.; H. A. Curnow, E. M. Rector, John J. Fortier, Twin City Clothing Co.; Cardinal Store, Geo. Hitchens; C. M. Hing, Sun Grocery Store; Mrs. Shields, Style Shop; Mrs. Edith Pettengell, Mrs. Ted Janiss, H. M. Leete, Penrose Grocery, HE. Schreiber, William R. Young, James F. Colley, Ramsey’s Cafe, Boston Mercantile Co., R. E. Harris Drug Store, W. C. Dodge, Purity Store, Safeway Stores, Dickerman Drug Store, The Bottle Shop, Mary Meservey,: Betty Martin West, Lace House, Dollar Store, Gene’s Cafe, Plaza Grocery Store, Frank Davies, Union Ice Co., Cc. W. Heiter, C. F. Tomkins, TJ. N. Ott, DeWitt Nelson, Jim Miller, Po2 G. Scadden, Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Goyne, Clyde Gwin, Miss S. A. Brown, S&S. Lee Leiter, one dollar; Bank of America donations in bank lobby, $10.46; donations made at newspapers, procession wound $10.85; Channel Pie, 25c, National Meat Market, 50c; Tom Jennings, Mrs. Eva Clutter; Rollie Wright, $2.00; John W. O’Neill, Union Hotel, Jim Miller; 50c; Club — Pool Hall, $2.00. Total, $75.55. MINERS RECEIVE CHRISTMAS BONUS Miners yesterday received their half monthly pay checks a day or two early in order to accomodate their needs for the holiday. The Newmont, Lava Gap-and other corporations enclosed a Christmas bonus of $25 in the pay envelope. GIFT FOR “COUNTRY BOY OF COLUMBIA HILL” 1S DELIVERED The postoffice staff met with a very knotty problem yesterday. A gift box was received rom the Sunnyside Nursery addressed only to the “Country Boy from Columbia With.” prominent. citizens who might After the consideration of several ‘fit that designation, a vote was taken among the postal staff with Mrs. Betty Martin West, postmaster, presiding, and it was decided that Horace Curnow was the addressee entitled to the delivery of this gift, and when REMINGTON HILL NOT ENGAGED IN HYDRAULICKING Owners of the Remington Hill lease, Messrs. J. H. Scales, J. H. Seales, Jr., and Wm. Forkner yesterday called at the Nugget office to deny a report recently published that they were hylraulicking gravel there. They state emphatically that such is not the case. The P. G. & E.-holds an injunction against any hydraulicking on the Bear river watershed and the lessees of Remington Hill thave no intention of violating the injunetion. What they have been doing, Mr. Forkner states, is some ground sluicing and gravel testing. Debris from this minor operation is cared for in their own debris dams. They report that the tests thus far made have been good, and they hope te have the injunction lifted soon in so far as it pertains to their ground. No water supply of any amount is now available owing to the poor condition of their ditches. 0.D. WOODMANIS . CALLED TO REST Wednesday 11:26 Oliver D. Woodman 79 years of age, well known and _ highly eorsones morning at Nevada Ctiy citnzen passed away at . the Nevada City anitarium following . t an illness of several weeks. . Deceased was born in Maine but came west as a young man. For many years he has been engaged in the real estate business in Nevada City and has made a very wide circle of friends here. He was always considered one of Nevada City’s best boosters. His pleasantness and kindness was manifested in many. ways, especially in -doing favors for oth-. ers. He was a great friend of the var-ious groups which camped at Lake Vera and the members of the camps were very fond of him and _ often made him an honored guest at their affairs. Deceased is survived by one brother, Charles Woodman of Auburn, Maine. Funeral services will be held . Monday afternoon at the Holmes . ig The Rev. Elwood Gray will officiate. Funeral Home chapel at 2 a . Dr. Tobias Tells Of Old German Customs — at Christmas Season The Rotary Club celebrated its, Christmas luncheon yesterday with Yuletide songs and an address by Dr. Paula Tobias of Town Talk on the Christmas traditions and customs of Germany. Dr. Tobias and her husband, Dr. Fritz Tobias, graduates of Heidelberg, formerly lived in Germany. Clyde Gwin gave an interesting report of the Downieville Christmas tree celebration in which Nevada City participated with Grass Valley, Auburn and Marysville Oscar Odegaard, following Dr. Tobias, recounted some of the customs, he remembered from his grandfather’s tales, of Christmas in Norway. DeWitt Nelson, chairman of the day, introduced Dr. Tobias. In Germany, Dr. Tobias said, the Christmas season is celebrated for weeks in advance of Christmas day. This is due partly to the fact that in Germany, the cold sets in earlier than in California, and fall colors do not merge with the winter season as they do in our landscapes. On the fourth Sunday before Christmas a candle is lighted and

placed in a spruce wreath, and each succeeding Sunday a candle is added until four candles are burning in the wreath. The mingled scent of beeswax candles and the woody odor of the spruce are intimately bound up, Dr. Tobias said, with the German Christmas and its background. Little Christmas figures of angels in gilt and colors, upholding a tiny Christmas candle, are placed about the rooms, and groups of beautiful little statuettes of the traditional figures in the Nativity grace window sills and mantels, also illumined by soft burning candles. A few days before Christmas a traditional St. Nicholas makes the rounds of the homes in the village and carefully inquires into the conduct of each boy and girl during the year, whether or not they have gotten good grades in school, and finally, just what it is they desire fer Christmas. Their answers are all carefully recorded. Feasting is a large share of the The most widely read newspaper score of languages the world over. Ba response to the following letter: say there is no Santa Claus. Papa it’s so.’’ Please tell me the truth, warming up to a real opportunity. other newspaper story ever written in the exact text: Virginia your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skeptism of a skeptical.age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can _be which is not comprehensible by -their little minds. All minds, Virginia, pecateoad) they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared ~with the boundless world about him ,as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how deary would be the world if ‘there were no * Santa Claus! It° would be as dreary as if be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills-the world would be extinguished. , i Not believe in Santa Claus! You ‘(Continued on Page Two) . office staff turned out to be right. he received it; the guess of the’ postmight as well not believe in fairies! Is There a Santa Claus? years ago in The New York Sun and since that time has been quoted in a reprints the famous “‘answer to Virginia”’ Dear Editor: I am eight. years old. Some Frank P. Church, the editorial writer who was assigned the task of answering Virginia, at first disdained the job as trivial. He took the letter and returned to his desk with an air of resignation, but soon found himself In a short time he had produced the article which has probably been reprinted more millions of times than any season approaches without bringing to The Sun hundreds of requests for ‘ceive or imagine all there were no Virginias. There would editorial ever written appeared 36 ch year, at Christmas time The Sun which was originally written in of my little friends says, “If you gee it in The Sun, is there a Santa Claus? VIRGINA O’HANLON. any language. Even yet, no holiday to watch in all the ‘chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even'if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody seés Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no: proof that they are not there.Nobody ean conthe. wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. “You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes-the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is is all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thous-and years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. southern limits. son, Lewellyn Wanamake, and three sisters, Mrs. John Hicks, German Christmas. The housewife mixes a batter for the great cake overspread with prunes or _ other dried \fruits, which have been carefully treasured for this special cake, and 2 o‘clock in the morning she takes her\cake to the bakery in-the village, where all the news of roundabout is retailed, and at 6 o’clock in the morning returns with the fresh cake in time for the family breakfast. She then begins the days fes-tivities as though she had not been up all night. ee The German Christmas bird, Dr. Tobias recounted, is not the turkey as in this country but roast goose stuffed with apples and chestnuts. Friends visit from house to house, exchange greetings and sample the Christmas feast each home provides. This country has one special custom Germany has not, and that is the live} and beautifully decorated outdoor . Christmas trees seen in private gar-. dens, though on high peaks in the! German forest oceasionaly big trees . are lighted for the pleasure of the} country folks in the vicinity. Dr. . Tobias recalled that when she and . her_husband first arrived in San. Francisco two years ago just before . Christmas, ‘friends took them for a motor ride about the city and to her), great delight showed them the trees . shining in many a garden. i le THUGS WANTED HERE, FOUND IN. NEVADA PRISON A trip taken a few days ago by Councilman James Penrose and Police Chief Garfield Robson, to Reno, Carson City and Virginia City, brought to light the fact that justice has overtaken the two thugs who three weeks ago held up Alfred Shroyer, nightman at the Nevada City Garafe, robbed the till of $35 and kidnaped Shroyer for a ride almost to the Five Mile House, where they turned him out to make his way back, on foot. While in Carson City, Robsen and Penrose called on.the warden at Nevada State Prison and learned that two men, Milton Effmah, a half beed, and Elmer E. Clark, both former inmates of San Quentin, after a series of gas station robberies in Reno, and following the hold-up of a cafe and bar, had been arrested, tried speedily, convicted and had just begun to serve sentences in the Nevada prison of from 5 to 10 years. Descriptions given him by Shroyer enabled Robson to identify the two men. A day or two later a federal officer called at the Nevada City Garage and showed Shroyer pictures of the two men, which he was able to identify immediately as the two who abdueted him. In the case of Effman and Clark, justice overtook them speedily, since it was barely three weeks since the Nevada City Garage robbery, that they were caught, tried and sentenced in the state of Nevada. DEATH SUMMONS . MRS. WANAMAKE Mrs. been critically ill in a Grass Valley Mamie Wanamake, who has hospital for several weeks, passed away yesterday morning. Of a gentle disposition, her greatest joy was-doing kindly deeds and her passing is mourned by all who knew her. She was a native of You Bet east of Nevada City, and came with her parents to this city as a small child to live first on Bee street and then to the present house on the lower Grass Valley road at Nevada City’s Left to mourn her passing are a Mrs. Ed Doyle, Oakland, Grass Valley and Mrs. Pearl Barker of Nevada City. The remains are at Holmes Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock Rev. Charles Washburn will officiate. Interment will be in Pine Grove cemetery. ROSECRUCIAN BUILDING in the chapel of the funeral home.! NOVEMBER GAS TAX $4208.36 + = SACRAMENTO, Dec. 23.—Income from California’s gasoline tax continued to gain during November, the state board of equalization reported today. ‘ The tax, assessed against the sale of 140, 281,207 gallons of gasoline, amounted to $4,208,436.21 for the month of November, a gain of 1.90 per cent over the same month of the previous year and slightly under the tax of $4,308,581.28 reported for October, 1937. The -November income brought the total gasoline tax collections up to $47,177,097.04 for the calendar year and bore out predictions of board of equalization officials that the revenue from the tax during 1937 would be in excess of $50,000,006 HEAVY SLAB FALLS AND KILLS MINER The remains of Rinaldo W. MeConnell who was killed in. an accident at the Golden Center mine in Grass Valley on Tuesday morning at 8 o’clock have been shipped to Canada and will arrive in Toronto to"COMPLETED IN TWO DAYS ‘Members of the Rosecrucian Hclesian in this area will be able to enjoy Christmas. services their own building Friday evening, December 24. A 36 by 50 foot building was started Tuesday and will be completed Friday. It is being built east of the Veterans Memorial building in Grass Valley. Dr. J. L. Hirsch of Grass Valley is the authorized lecturer and will give the Christmas service. There.are quite a number of members in this district. RAINFALL FOR SEASON in Snow You might get your papa to hire men NOW TOTALS 24 INCHES A surprise storm ‘visited this area Wednesday afternoon leaving .60 of an inch of rain in a heavy downpour of a few hours. This new storm, added to the previous rainfall, brought the seasonal rainfall to 24 inches. fell Wednesday in the high mountains. The stage driver out of Washington stated there were five and a half inches of new snow at the junction of the Washington and Tahoe-Ukiah highways yesterday morning and it fell as far down as the Five Mile House. Several inches of sonw ‘fell in Graniteville and Ateghany. . : day. The widow Mrs. Mary McCon; nell and four children have left for . Toronto for the funeral services and . burial. Deceased was struck by a fall. ing slab as he stopped to inspect the . work at the No. 2 stope on the 1200 level. McConnell died instantly when the heavy slab fell upon him from the hanging wall. Dan Nuttall and Bob Maynard were standing within a few feet of McConnell when the slab fell but they were powerless to help him. : Deceased was a native of Ontario, ployed by the Cooley Butler interests in the Lake Superior mining district and came to Grass Valley two boss at the Golden Center mine. He was in jhis fortieth year at the time of his death. He built a home at 337 South Auburn street in Grass Valley ‘and he with his wife and four chilcivic life, of the community being esPatrick’s Catholic church. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Mary Connell; four children, James, Catherine, 14; Lillian, 11 9; his mother, Mrs. = . The Liberty of the Press consists in the right to publish the Truth, ee es } Canada and had’ formerly been em-_ and a half years ago to be a shift — dren had taken an active part in the . pecially active in the work of St. _