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er as ir ‘by statute, Printed and Published
at Nevada City.
OP ee eee Editor and Pos..
Pabtahed. Semi-Weekly. Monday aou i44:sd4,
at Nevada City, California, and enier<d as matter. of the second ¢lass in the postoffice at
City under Act of Congress, March 3,
2 SUBSCRIPTION RATES
: $3.00
why ped oa brown earth
ids so much of priceless worth—
ig tree; the fruitful vine,
t. flower and stately pine,
Lap wp ame soil and ae aly similar cons of superlative loveliness and worth, and pare
mful and repulsive:
years past, 4 garden which . loved ae
zg when I went out to enjoy its fragrant
inct shock; in the middle of the pansy
a tie be the ugly, venemous head of a
believe it, so I looked again and ‘found
was a mushroom of some unknown
ded swift and ‘unconditional extermin» alchemy had that ugly, evil smellitig}
and sustenance from the same soil which
of pansies? To me, the mystery is as. inexthe curious minglings of good and evil, demrealm of life and seem to reach their full
: a, in the races of ange ere
y the atrocious treatment of war prisfoe; we should not have been
elations contain little that we had not
taken us a long’ time to realize the natface. The evil systems which have fill: _ and sorrow, were of, mushroom
, that we piste failed a; comdesrroy degrade u our
unleashed hatred and cruelty. Now,
iting powers and . principalities of
be RO. a If we and
i; aad of evil fall up‘Here the strange growths do
‘ugliness. No, like the dainty
ater ni ae defeptive grace
‘
__Nevada ( City Nugget — pasa February 7, 1944
SS
—————
LINCOLN WOULD LAUGH
Mote then ence, a> history and the Lite of Abraham Lincoln shdw. the Great Emancipator, whose birthday we celebrate this month, was saved in the nick of time by a great
and useful sense of humor.
We believe that Lincoln's beloved. homely face would
twist into a grin if he could read the Seabee composition paraphrasing his own historic address at Gettysburg written nearly meter for meter with his ‘words, but describing the plight
of a construction battalion in the South Pacific.
“Two score and seven days ago’ carpenter's mate Arvin Sell writes, “‘our battalion brought forth upon this island
a new project, conceived in a foxhole and dedicated to the proposition that all Japs are created evil.
“The world will little note nor long remember what we
build ‘here, but we shall never forget the hash and beans we
ate here. Let us resolve that we shall not have sweat in vain;
thet this battalion shal! have 30 days of freedom in the U. S.
by Easter, and that this thought shall not perish from our
hopes.”
The parody will offend none but the narrow and_unthinking: The boys in the battle areas need a sense of humor
13 desnerately as Lincoln did in his war travails. We venture
the belief that the great man himself—who never could keep
a straight face.when anything comical was: going on, and who
understood ‘ceremonial pomp far less than he understood his
fellow men—would be the first to give a lough guffaw at the
humor of the struggling young Americans who, unabashed,
produce a parody on the words of their idol. ;
And Abraham Lincoln, who, pardoned a young sentry
who fell asleep. on duty, undoubtedly would hope that those
Seabee buddies of carpenter's mate Sell building their bridges
and gun emplacements and sanitary systems in the South
Pacific mud, get their “30 days of freedom i in the US. by
Easter,” we do; ——Contributed.
" BEASTS IN HUMAN FORM
. The unspeakable Jap atrocities which have been revealed by some of our fighting men who escaped from the Philippines have shocked and revolted the whole nation.
‘We had known, of course, that the Japs were treacherous, brutal and vicious. We had known that they beheaded
prisones of war; that they ravaged women. and children in
captured cities—and that they had been guilty of almost every
crime against humanity which. depraved minds could cone
ceive.
dered in Jap prison camps.
\ We are not fighting men
atrocities:
Corregidor. If we were not
layed. <2 Contributed.
But somehow we were not prepared for the horror story
of American boys being starved, tortured and wantonly murThat reveals a depth of depravity’
such as the world has not known since the dark ages.
beasts in human form—beasts that must he wiped from the
face of the earth, if civilization is to endure. Every real American, boiled with righteous anger as he read of the brutal
itted against our men captured on Bataan and
fighting mad before, we certainly
are now—and there will be a day of fearful retribution for the
[beasts of Japan. We only tere that sce is not too long i
in. the Pacific; we are fighting
WORRIES:
It probably on not make tiabk
difference whether the ground hog
‘was able to see his, shadow or got
, . drowned: the ‘other day, or ‘is there
jmuch use in being overly worried as
}to wether there will be enough watjer to drink next summer or not.
(If we hark ack ‘tio the year the
og . Roosevelt dynasty took over the gov‘ermment—-that was in 1933—-we may
revall that from February 3rd to the
7th about 40 of us; in relays on dit‘ferent days, volunteered to go to
'Scott’s Flat and cut the ice and
snow out of . the Snow Mountai
‘ditch, for we were ‘without water to
fight any conflagration that might
~~ . arise, the N. I. D. was in ‘the poorOf lmy partner came to work
‘jover the bank.
“. house and the situation was serious.
You: reniémbber the big bob sica
( : that was built at the Miner’s’ Foundry, and the little, but powerful caterpillar tractor that surprised all of
usby hauling this heavy sled and
hits. 40; men load we the. steep grades
to Scott’s Plat over four .feet of
snow. How. we.spread out a hund'. Fed feet or more apart and chopped
out the ice and weer. and heaved it
These were the. riasy sane the
“noble experiment’ was: being inflict.ed and high jacking, bootlegging and
home brew were the order of the day.
with a
flask of Volstead spirits: that was of
; -. @ different hue than any I had seen
before, It hed -&a innocent, pale
‘=p . Steen complexion like
‘}tea; but. it had plenty of vitamin Z
peppermint
in it and a swig or two chased your
fecorpuscles around so fast that you
soon forgot about those leaky boots
‘}that let the ice water. circulate
around: your toes, and time sped by
On January 2ist, 1937 we had
probably the coldest night known
Lhére, There was snow on the ground,
. the. thermometer said 4 degrees be_ lew zero, and everybody just curled
. 4p and hugged the fire while water
pipe: casualties. occurred in every
household.
dItcwas the experience of a good =
. many who had their heads under the
is on donna pail
_. Be Elected April 4
‘ly Mayor Ben Hall appointed a com“Every householder took an elementary ‘course in plumbing the next
day and. formed in line.at the plumber’s bench to have a few threads cut
in. the sections of pipe he carried
ander his arm. Then; he went. home
with a pocket full of fittings and
some wrenches and cursed all the
rest of the day until he got circulation restored. Blow ‘torches were’ at4
4° premium’ and: anything weaker
than a cannon couldn't stand up under the. 30,000 pounds pressure of .
‘expending ice. Ms
During the ‘same month in 1937
there was nine feet of snow at the
Washington Junttion and ‘Washington ran out of ‘beans and whiskey. It
‘was the 9th of February before a
bull dozer broke through and brought
them relief. Then on the 18th of
March, for good measure it snowed
another two feet at the Junction.
There-was eight ihches of snow in
‘Nevada City on February 3rd, 1939,.
and ten more inches fell on March
9th.: And: don’t forget that. snow
storm’on the night of May 8th, 1922
when we awakened out of a sound
slumber by the crashing of poplar
limbs. in full leaf; and we had to
crawl out of bed at one a. m. ‘and
improvise a long pole to curry ‘the
trait trees with—rememtber that?
City Councilmen To
.
The Nevada City Council, which
advertised for bids for supplying the
city police department with a new
patrol car, received none. Accordingmittee of councilmen, Irving Seaman
and Al Bates, to scout the markets
and see if they can locate a car suitable for police uses.
The council announced that a city
election will be held April 4th, 1944
for the election of three members.
The terms of Frank Davies, Irving}
Seaman and Dr. J. R. Ivey expire
May ist. The council ordered the
purchase of $2 000 in war bonds.
MARCH OF DIMES .
Dr. Walter Hawkins and John}:
Fortier, in charge of the March of
Dimes, report that $114.10 was cok
lected. as a result of the activities of
the city’s Girl Scouts; and the pla>ing of collection boxes -in schools,
court house, stores and bank.
Galinas ‘began life as the grazing
ground of the cattle trom ‘the Presi Miaoe! Stteonan caed and
THINKING OUT LOUD
(Continued from Page One)
New York. He is giving 4 good account of himself-in that job. Another four years and a wider acquaintance with his own country
may indeed qualify him for the
highest, most honorable post in
the world.
The interest this country now
pays on its national debt is far
more than the annual cost-of the
federal government, say, in .1900.
When Wendell Willkie demands
that this country yield added taxes of 16 billions instead of the
two and half billions that the furtive New Dealers and faint-hearted Republicans are willing to propose in an election year, he is
talking sound Republican business.sense. This country needs to
learn speedily that it will have to
pay for a world war, and the back
debts contracted before the war
when the New Deal.was taxing
and taxing and spending and
spending. We doubt whether it
was politically tactful of Mr. Willkie to set off such a terrible blast
in a country fed for eleven years
on the honey pap of fire side chats.
But wé do not doubt Willkie’s
honesty and good busifiess egnse in
proposing it.
Willkie may well argue: The
country will have had twelve years
of the administration which pro, {. mised in Roosevelt’s first. candidacy to reduce govern'ment.expenses, to cut down bureaucracy, clip
overlapping agencies, and put into effect a sound business regime
inWashington. Of course, in the
history of country only one Democrat ever did that and that was
Grover Cleveland. Now Mr. Willkie may reason, the country musi
prepare to pay.for its spending
spree, and for the war. He may
well conclude that he had rather
be. defeated on the platform he is
building for himself, than elected
an party hacks .further to befuddle .the voters, merely to return
the Republican party to power.
Incidentally, if. Republicans
eapture the House in the November election Rooseveltian spending will have run its course, anyway, even thowgh he does win a
fourth term. Willkie . can wait.
With the House and the president at cross purposes . for four
years, However; we shall mark
time, internal feuds will inerease,
our world leadership: will be jeopardized if not lost, and confusconfounded. -1t is nota pleasant
prospect.We hope that : Willkie
will be nominated and elected. We”
hope’ that the’ horse sense of. this
nation: which has always. turned
to the Republican. party fer a good
ibusiness. administration, .some‘thing the country now desperately
needs, will winout again. this
fall. We beHeve: the, War . Willkie
is making him votes. '
Napa’ s first peitiors came in 1832;
its first . permanent eared in}
1848 was a saloon.
WANTED—Coin collections.
Sherow, Box 2, Nevada City.
12-13itf
L. -E.
WANTED "
$50.00 GOLD PIECE
win Sy $100.08 te, demsniice
saath heh aculbiaiet ust ete ane
other pioneer gold coins. .
L. E. SHEROW
P. 0. Box 2 Nevada City
9-27-Tp
I Wild. PAY: $1 Each For 1909 Indian head cents with ‘letter “Ss”
below wreath and 1909 Lincoln
head cents with letter “S” below
date and initials ““VDB” near lower edge on reverse. Also want gold
2, Nevada City. 9-277p
LOOAL AND LONG DISTANCE
moving in standard furniture van.
First class staroge facilities. Furniture bought and sold. Hills Fiat
Reliable Transfer, Grass Valley,
. Phone 471-W or 39. ; 3-1tf
EXPERT RADIO REPAIRING —
Loud Speaker Systems for Rent.
Complete stock of portable and
large type “radio batteries. ART’S
RADIO -HOSPITAL — Specialists
in Radio Mls. 112 South.
Street, Grass Valley.
2-19]
an a platform built by Republic. .
“jon in Washington will: be worse’ .
. CARL POWER &
. @ftice Hours: 1 to
dollars, $2.50 and $3 pieces. Box. . }Is NEEDED.
even when
budget is
limited
Keystone.
. Market
DAVE RICHARDS, Prop.
218 Commercial Street
Phone 67 Nevada City
We supply our patrons
with the meat from the
.best cattle, sheep and hogs
that money can buy. We
have built our reputation
on service and quality
and réasonable prices. Ask
your neighbors about us.
They will tell you.
PROFESSIONAL
DIRECTORY =
DOCTORS
~B. W. HUMMBELT, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
400 Broad Street
Office Hours: 10-12 a. m.; 2-5 p.
@venings 7-8. Phone 395 X-RAY
“ATTORNEYS
. WA SHELDON
* ATTORNEY AT LAW ™*
Union Building Broad Street —
Nevada City Telephone 328
——S
F UNERAL DIRECTORS
The Holmes. Funéral Home service is priced within the. means. of
all. Ambulance service at ajl hours.
Phone 208
246 Sacramento St., Nevada City
MINING. ENGINEERS
‘J. F. O°CONNOR
United Gtates Mineral bo i
208 West M ata 4 Geel Valley
Office Hours: 1 to 3.
Sundays 11:30 to 12:30.129 South, Auburn St,, Grass Valley .
Phone Grass . Valley: 360 if
if No Answer—Graes Valley 17-W.
, M.D
7 to 8 p. m@.
Sundays 11:30 to 12:30
129 South Auburn St. Grass Valley.
' Phone,.Grass, Valley 17-W
FRATERNAL AND
CLUB DIRECTORY
__. WOMEN'S CIVIC uw 4
Regular meetings the 2nd an
4th Thursdays of the month, at the
Grammar School Auditorium. 2:30
p.m.
. MRS. BERYL ROBINSON, Pres.
PHYSICIAN AND 8
Thursday evening‘at 8 p. m. i]
. Biks Home, Pine St. Rhone 108.
. Visitinw Biks welcome.
W. L. TAMBLYN,
THOMAS, See.
eee laa Aoniee ning at eets every Tues eve
Pythian Castle, 232 Broad Stree*
Visiting Native Sons welcome,
Meets every Tuesday evening a
-7:30 at Odd Fellows Hall.
CARL. J. SWHNDSEN, N. G.
5: RaCnNETS, ‘noe. See. .