January 3, 1944 (4 pages)

yt son’ “of Mr: a aie Mrs. home on a furlough Ga. He is tn i\ greeting to his parents eonard Gould, captain of a ship in the U. S: fleet, sent a holiday last week from Haynes, Alaska. He had expected to be with family members in a reunion. He visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Gould last May. Hie ship was in Seattle, Wash, he boarded a plane ard came to Nevada , . \City, visited. one hour and fifteen _. minutes, then returned by plane and was on his ship the same evening. ination H. M. Leete— ‘Harley Leete, stationed in the ¢. British Isles tells more. of his impressions of. Sotland and of a visit to Loch Lomond. 9:46 p. m-—Ho hum—here it it gack time and much water has gone through the pipes since this morning. When 1 knocked off the letter at chow time T Went down to the mess hall newly. igstablished for the officers of this area. We used to ‘. just go to the head of the enlisted men’s line, get the same chow they 1 did, take it on, a hut, and eat it the but no style; no ¢ serve yourself deal, & ina big separate mess, hell, claire, Giteuy a /not benches; we sit down and the thoys bring us our ‘cho’ i] white dishes—we even kins, oF at least pape “towels for ‘napkina. a 4 George Fortune and I went around hiking about the ‘countryside here,’ jan bus riding about; it's a terrific couniry, (8) The people are characters. If you ever stop a couple of natives ‘on the street and-ask them directions you ‘are in for what amounts to a vaude{ville skit. They don’t speak American ,of course, but their own dialogue, 80 you have to be mighty e. sharp, and hang on tight from the . . start if you want to keep up with . them. They. will never tell you what do ‘exactly, which is what you i; Bedine Anan deat discues ‘all a ; a Le ew ae byways are full-of the r dest faced looking little. characters ; . . iNew Yeans greetings, through a ah to his, Erlend de perete emis . when I and some other officer come 2 done. believe they hold . ,¢old must wake the people up in,t ee pe and. too early to get up or pay . see it with the sun on it or at leas under . a atee: sky isn’t particu oe Foutited: ‘mountains. ewe 1 . ithe countryside ‘and on a warm, sunny day it must {be utterly delightful. . _ Jel: And some of the little ne —they were built in the year. _ Paeereson {What next! I expect to meet a Nor. Jenkintown, Pa., which was a gift Zlof the a , passing the ball back and ‘forth, “very courteous, very helpful very verbose——-and you never get’, away. A case in point occured one day when, on a short leave. I took a side trip to Loch Lomond from Glasgow, with Fortune. Near the Loék jwe van into a couple of British ~ ‘eommanders, both of them atraight out of Dickens. One of them—about. 55, average height——-was strikingly handsome, looked like a Roman emperor —white” hair, cold blue eyes, acquiline nose. The other was a ruddy, red haired character, roly-poly and cheerful as anything you’ve ever seen with big red eyebrows that twitched up in the corner. They were both riding bicycles—can you imagine a commander in our navy riding a bicycle And they were both very helpful and very courteous. And they gave us travel instructions for what. seemed like hours. Somewhat bewildered, George and: i finally a#ajourned into the tea room 4m front of which this windy council ‘Rad been held. It was in a town at the base of Loch Lomond. British, tea rooms are an institution with which we from the states are not aequainted. It is a restaurant, yet not a restaurant as we know it. The bit item, of course is tea. Most of them serve bréakfast, tea, . luncheon, tea, and high tea. Most of theml dont serve dinner. Tea in this partieular place, which I think was the best tea room there was a big pot of wonderful tea for two, plenty of bit on the table at a good place and strawberry jam, dark brown Scotch bread, scones, which here are sweetcold), and cakes, which are eupeakes, not very sweet, rather plain, but sometimes served in a pie crust— what next. Anyhow there is quite.a but on thé table at a good place and you help yourself. The tea is very warming and you like to be “‘warmed, and the food is quite filling. They say the people around here are ‘happiest if they can have a cup of tea about once an ‘hour. : ‘The people are very quiet. in tea . Tooms. You can hear a pin drop and. go help me in some tea roo7s they talk in ‘whispers. You know I'm not . particularly loud bat by George in for some. tea you would ink from the contrast in the little noise . of our conversation that we were, A eouple of wild hyennas. However . it. against us. . Yankees, they call us, and I believe they pte mildly amused. . Whis country is full of kids, Tet morning too early to go back» , Bur anyway. the etreets you could possibly: imagine. And thér . all want goom, or gom, whichever To. ‘appreciate a Take, one hes. ‘a clear sky over it. Loch ‘Lomond is very beaut! You would love this country. carina: two oie old ladies behing wee little counter . stacked with * Big aod kind ot ‘peared of me.I pose geypigts hea es stig "Phen. there was the peers vies the caretaker casually showed us a couple of tombstones, of, dteele hat, We’ " going for a‘long rip e twelfth century. thera — any day now. — ; % GUFT LONG DITANOR CALL, Donlad Thomas; aviation me i smith in the’ U. ‘$8, Navy, won fifst prize at a Church Door Canteen in long distance phone callto relatives in Nevada City. He talked with is sister, Mrs. Ralph Pierce in this city, He cohveyed Christmas and ish spongy bread, not bad,” ‘served NMerchant Marine, . AMERICAN INCONSISTENCY — IN YEAR 1944 By ERWIN D. CANHAM Americans enter 1944, which may well be the world’s great year of de¢ision, in'a mood of almost unbelievable inconsistency. On the one hand, about 10, 000,000 of them are under arms, making ‘hoble sacrifices, and on the other band a railroad strike—incredible potential blow to the war effort—is actually threatened. ‘On the one hand, millions of. mothers and fathers, wives and loved ones, are superbly supporting the nation’s effort, and on the other hand greed and selfishness run rampant in farm and factory, countinghoues and congress. ‘We have still not discovered, for our domestic resolve, the moral equivalent of air bombardment or invasion threats. We are still a people three thousand miles or more from war. We, are still a nation wallowing in a great industrial boom, in un.precedented prosperity. The resultant buying orgy of this Christmas season was grotesque and embarrassing. Most shelves and counters are stripped as bare as if a horde of locusts had descended upon them, leaving misfits and rejects. A Crhistmas: boom was the last thing we needed to stabilize our ecpnoiny. » Moreover, we are still a grievously over-aptimistic people. ‘The recent Moscow, Cairo, and Teheran conferprices seem to have made people all ‘the more certain of an early ending of the war. Yet sober analysis shows the cross-channel invasion still some months aff, a Russian break through into really crucial German territory unlikely, saturation bombing of the ‘thorough and perhans not even. up’ to schedule, the Italian campaign still: in +heayy going, and the road ito Tokyo long and painful. It seems, too, that we had several misfortunes that the people have not fully realized. Getmany apparently was in a ra: her tough spot two ,or three months ago, after the Siciiljan campaign and the Russian burst along the Dniepe. Germany, in. éffect, was dazed and perhaps even tottering. But we—Russia, Britain, America—were unable to, press our advantage. The Germans reformed o . Ttalian debacle, and . girded. themselves internally for a. winter of bombing. ‘We apparently missed _another boat. ._ Perhaps as the New Year opens, the American people will realize how much of their task stilt lies ahead. ‘. Perhaps the selfish pressure groups . , . which have worked their will. on congress. will find their hold weak{ened by the protesting voice’ of the voters. Perhaps the’ strike: threats will lessen, and thé means of controlling war profits "will . more Workable. Perhaps’ the admin. istration will realize that its primary ~.} War. time, duty at. home -is to achieve f {the highest possible degree of intern~ Phere is one key to the whole sitone, outstanding source of our propagandists. are. all ‘sahil cursed by. it. ‘Wars were never won,. nor wail ‘won, . on such ‘bases. The United ‘States, it ‘seems diinat. Reeds. a. from their men id service at the being supremely’ unselfish ‘today;) : Americans are meking great sacriie fices. They are. achieving noble. deeds. But for the most part they are the Americans © Who have come to srops with their problems © under fire, and have turned to God. There area. great many of them :' ‘the Americans manning the Navy and. the the American flying the skies éverywhere, he Americans slogging through: the jungle swamps. of the Séuth . Pacific and ‘the. muddy mountain tracks of Italy. Mammon does not fly-in a B times turn to God. We need this awareness of Godin the halls of con. . gress, in the labor union councils, in : Set aneeine: ottiees, ‘Our problem . f Rei¢h still a long way from being . . heir forces in Russia, prevented vt), become . ‘ fate It is especially appropriate} to:think of at the Christmas season. . # Tt is unselfishness. For selfishness is . . Present troubles. There is. political. # sifishness; and economic seltishness. . } here is greed for power, ‘and’. for . : ‘ 3 shes, Labor. and. capital, politicians . ! sentous awakening. That awakening = will come, and speedily, whén peo-. % ‘. ple listen to the message that comes . : World’s far corners. Americans are} 17 over Bremen. nor wade at dawn . across a coral beach. Men at those j rangers dormant awareness? Must we not .at least, should our clarian eall day and night until all shall hear? The need. is very simple, very clear, It is “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God.” Dutch Officer Will Be ‘Laymeth Club Speaker At a joint meeting of the Grass Valley and Nevada City Rotary clubs at luncheon at which steaming trays of wild ducks were served, Capt. D. L. Asjest of the Royal Dutch Air Force, described one of the opening attacks of the Jap air men on the island of Java. Capt. Asjest said that he was one of a number of Dutch pilots who rose to meet the invading air armada. At the height of the air battle he regounted that far below he noted his own home burst into flames as the result of incendiary ibombs: shiowNevada City. Nugget — Monday, Jdiineey: & ioal ———. ered down by the enémy despite. the defense of the score of Dutch In fact the majority of Duteh aie were shot in the Japs initial attacks, Fortunately Capt. Asjes’ wife and young son managed to escape and a little later the Dutch pilots who gus, vived were transferred to Australia, ; where Capt. Asjes became an in: structor to new air recruits. With his family he is now visiting in Grasg Valley. Program chairman was Cutran A. Heath. The club nimrods providing the roast duck dinner were Beryl Robinson and Helm &. Kjorlie. BORN EDWARDS—iIn Nevada City, Ne vada County, December 31, 1943, t ‘Mr. and Mrs. Chester Edwards ot Grass Valley, a son. THE POCK ETBOOK] Va KNOWLEDGE EW LUGGAGE MA aera’ PAPER IMPRE TH SyNTHETIC RUBBER. ha 1S ieee WEARING, RESISTANT TO : OS, Seer: ry ; h Wy Ky Sti adilieatieiteet sell : tnt “Tue Wo Rvs LARGEST CARGURETOR. PLANT EMPLOYS THREE TiMEs AS MANY WOMEN AS MEN WM, Sp ay, Gi : lh. oa

yt son’ “of Mr: a aie Mrs. home on a furlough Ga. He is tn i\ greeting to his parents eonard Gould, captain of a ship in the U. S: fleet, sent a holiday last week from Haynes, Alaska. He had expected to be with family members in a reunion. He visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Gould last May. Hie ship was in Seattle, Wash, he boarded a plane ard came to Nevada , . \City, visited. one hour and fifteen _. minutes, then returned by plane and was on his ship the same evening. ination H. M. Leete— ‘Harley Leete, stationed in the ¢. British Isles tells more. of his impressions of. Sotland and of a visit to Loch Lomond. 9:46 p. m-—Ho hum—here it it gack time and much water has gone through the pipes since this morning. When 1 knocked off the letter at chow time T Went down to the mess hall newly. igstablished for the officers of this area. We used to ‘. just go to the head of the enlisted men’s line, get the same chow they 1 did, take it on, a hut, and eat it the but no style; no ¢ serve yourself deal, & ina big separate mess, hell, claire, Giteuy a /not benches; we sit down and the thoys bring us our ‘cho’ i] white dishes—we even kins, oF at least pape “towels for ‘napkina. a 4 George Fortune and I went around hiking about the ‘countryside here,’ jan bus riding about; it's a terrific couniry, (8) The people are characters. If you ever stop a couple of natives ‘on the street and-ask them directions you ‘are in for what amounts to a vaude{ville skit. They don’t speak American ,of course, but their own dialogue, 80 you have to be mighty e. sharp, and hang on tight from the . . start if you want to keep up with . them. They. will never tell you what do ‘exactly, which is what you i; Bedine Anan deat discues ‘all a ; a Le ew ae byways are full-of the r dest faced looking little. characters ; . . iNew Yeans greetings, through a ah to his, Erlend de perete emis . when I and some other officer come 2 done. believe they hold . ,¢old must wake the people up in,t ee pe and. too early to get up or pay . see it with the sun on it or at leas under . a atee: sky isn’t particu oe Foutited: ‘mountains. ewe 1 . ithe countryside ‘and on a warm, sunny day it must {be utterly delightful. . _ Jel: And some of the little ne —they were built in the year. _ Paeereson {What next! I expect to meet a Nor. Jenkintown, Pa., which was a gift Zlof the a , passing the ball back and ‘forth, “very courteous, very helpful very verbose——-and you never get’, away. A case in point occured one day when, on a short leave. I took a side trip to Loch Lomond from Glasgow, with Fortune. Near the Loék jwe van into a couple of British ~ ‘eommanders, both of them atraight out of Dickens. One of them—about. 55, average height——-was strikingly handsome, looked like a Roman emperor —white” hair, cold blue eyes, acquiline nose. The other was a ruddy, red haired character, roly-poly and cheerful as anything you’ve ever seen with big red eyebrows that twitched up in the corner. They were both riding bicycles—can you imagine a commander in our navy riding a bicycle And they were both very helpful and very courteous. And they gave us travel instructions for what. seemed like hours. Somewhat bewildered, George and: i finally a#ajourned into the tea room 4m front of which this windy council ‘Rad been held. It was in a town at the base of Loch Lomond. British, tea rooms are an institution with which we from the states are not aequainted. It is a restaurant, yet not a restaurant as we know it. The bit item, of course is tea. Most of them serve bréakfast, tea, . luncheon, tea, and high tea. Most of theml dont serve dinner. Tea in this partieular place, which I think was the best tea room there was a big pot of wonderful tea for two, plenty of bit on the table at a good place and strawberry jam, dark brown Scotch bread, scones, which here are sweetcold), and cakes, which are eupeakes, not very sweet, rather plain, but sometimes served in a pie crust— what next. Anyhow there is quite.a but on thé table at a good place and you help yourself. The tea is very warming and you like to be “‘warmed, and the food is quite filling. They say the people around here are ‘happiest if they can have a cup of tea about once an ‘hour. : ‘The people are very quiet. in tea . Tooms. You can hear a pin drop and. go help me in some tea roo7s they talk in ‘whispers. You know I'm not . particularly loud bat by George in for some. tea you would ink from the contrast in the little noise . of our conversation that we were, A eouple of wild hyennas. However . it. against us. . Yankees, they call us, and I believe they pte mildly amused. . Whis country is full of kids, Tet morning too early to go back» , Bur anyway. the etreets you could possibly: imagine. And thér . all want goom, or gom, whichever To. ‘appreciate a Take, one hes. ‘a clear sky over it. Loch ‘Lomond is very beaut! You would love this country. carina: two oie old ladies behing wee little counter . stacked with * Big aod kind ot ‘peared of me.I pose geypigts hea es stig "Phen. there was the peers vies the caretaker casually showed us a couple of tombstones, of, dteele hat, We’ " going for a‘long rip e twelfth century. thera — any day now. — ; % GUFT LONG DITANOR CALL, Donlad Thomas; aviation me i smith in the’ U. ‘$8, Navy, won fifst prize at a Church Door Canteen in long distance phone callto relatives in Nevada City. He talked with is sister, Mrs. Ralph Pierce in this city, He cohveyed Christmas and ish spongy bread, not bad,” ‘served NMerchant Marine, . AMERICAN INCONSISTENCY — IN YEAR 1944 By ERWIN D. CANHAM

Americans enter 1944, which may well be the world’s great year of de¢ision, in'a mood of almost unbelievable inconsistency. On the one hand, about 10, 000,000 of them are under arms, making ‘hoble sacrifices, and on the other band a railroad strike—incredible potential blow to the war effort—is actually threatened. ‘On the one hand, millions of. mothers and fathers, wives and loved ones, are superbly supporting the nation’s effort, and on the other hand greed and selfishness run rampant in farm and factory, countinghoues and congress. ‘We have still not discovered, for our domestic resolve, the moral equivalent of air bombardment or invasion threats. We are still a people three thousand miles or more from war. We, are still a nation wallowing in a great industrial boom, in un.precedented prosperity. The resultant buying orgy of this Christmas season was grotesque and embarrassing. Most shelves and counters are stripped as bare as if a horde of locusts had descended upon them, leaving misfits and rejects. A Crhistmas: boom was the last thing we needed to stabilize our ecpnoiny. » Moreover, we are still a grievously over-aptimistic people. ‘The recent Moscow, Cairo, and Teheran conferprices seem to have made people all ‘the more certain of an early ending of the war. Yet sober analysis shows the cross-channel invasion still some months aff, a Russian break through into really crucial German territory unlikely, saturation bombing of the ‘thorough and perhans not even. up’ to schedule, the Italian campaign still: in +heayy going, and the road ito Tokyo long and painful. It seems, too, that we had several misfortunes that the people have not fully realized. Getmany apparently was in a ra: her tough spot two ,or three months ago, after the Siciiljan campaign and the Russian burst along the Dniepe. Germany, in. éffect, was dazed and perhaps even tottering. But we—Russia, Britain, America—were unable to, press our advantage. The Germans reformed o . Ttalian debacle, and . girded. themselves internally for a. winter of bombing. ‘We apparently missed _another boat. ._ Perhaps as the New Year opens, the American people will realize how much of their task stilt lies ahead. ‘. Perhaps the selfish pressure groups . , . which have worked their will. on congress. will find their hold weak{ened by the protesting voice’ of the voters. Perhaps the’ strike: threats will lessen, and thé means of controlling war profits "will . more Workable. Perhaps’ the admin. istration will realize that its primary ~.} War. time, duty at. home -is to achieve f {the highest possible degree of intern~ Phere is one key to the whole sitone, outstanding source of our propagandists. are. all ‘sahil cursed by. it. ‘Wars were never won,. nor wail ‘won, . on such ‘bases. The United ‘States, it ‘seems diinat. Reeds. a. from their men id service at the being supremely’ unselfish ‘today;) : Americans are meking great sacriie fices. They are. achieving noble. deeds. But for the most part they are the Americans © Who have come to srops with their problems © under fire, and have turned to God. There area. great many of them :' ‘the Americans manning the Navy and. the the American flying the skies éverywhere, he Americans slogging through: the jungle swamps. of the Séuth . Pacific and ‘the. muddy mountain tracks of Italy. Mammon does not fly-in a B times turn to God. We need this awareness of Godin the halls of con. . gress, in the labor union councils, in : Set aneeine: ottiees, ‘Our problem . f Rei¢h still a long way from being . . heir forces in Russia, prevented vt), become . ‘ fate It is especially appropriate} to:think of at the Christmas season. . # Tt is unselfishness. For selfishness is . . Present troubles. There is. political. # sifishness; and economic seltishness. . } here is greed for power, ‘and’. for . : ‘ 3 shes, Labor. and. capital, politicians . ! sentous awakening. That awakening = will come, and speedily, whén peo-. % ‘. ple listen to the message that comes . : World’s far corners. Americans are} 17 over Bremen. nor wade at dawn . across a coral beach. Men at those j rangers dormant awareness? Must we not .at least, should our clarian eall day and night until all shall hear? The need. is very simple, very clear, It is “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God.” Dutch Officer Will Be ‘Laymeth Club Speaker At a joint meeting of the Grass Valley and Nevada City Rotary clubs at luncheon at which steaming trays of wild ducks were served, Capt. D. L. Asjest of the Royal Dutch Air Force, described one of the opening attacks of the Jap air men on the island of Java. Capt. Asjest said that he was one of a number of Dutch pilots who rose to meet the invading air armada. At the height of the air battle he regounted that far below he noted his own home burst into flames as the result of incendiary ibombs: shiowNevada City. Nugget — Monday, Jdiineey: & ioal ———. ered down by the enémy despite. the defense of the score of Dutch In fact the majority of Duteh aie were shot in the Japs initial attacks, Fortunately Capt. Asjes’ wife and young son managed to escape and a little later the Dutch pilots who gus, vived were transferred to Australia, ; where Capt. Asjes became an in: structor to new air recruits. With his family he is now visiting in Grasg Valley. Program chairman was Cutran A. Heath. The club nimrods providing the roast duck dinner were Beryl Robinson and Helm &. Kjorlie. BORN EDWARDS—iIn Nevada City, Ne vada County, December 31, 1943, t ‘Mr. and Mrs. Chester Edwards ot Grass Valley, a son. THE POCK ETBOOK] Va KNOWLEDGE EW LUGGAGE MA aera’ PAPER IMPRE TH SyNTHETIC RUBBER. ha 1S ieee WEARING, RESISTANT TO : OS, Seer: ry ; h Wy Ky Sti adilieatieiteet sell : tnt “Tue Wo Rvs LARGEST CARGURETOR. PLANT EMPLOYS THREE TiMEs AS MANY WOMEN AS MEN WM, Sp ay, Gi : lh. oa