June 7, 1935 (6 pages)

za oe a ee ie lie ie ae . * Ny -aundreds of others throughout the Thinking . . Out Loud Nevada City Nugget Nevada City Nugget is a Member of the United Press And California Newspaper Publishers Association adv Your Hometown Newspaper community. Readers and good builder. helps build your ertisers make it a aaa (By H. M. L.) With a long jubilant succession of splashes of the municipal pool openod Tuesday at one o'clock. Just in time to save, you might say, Nevada City’s five or six hundred youngsters from roasting to death in .unseasonably warm weather. The atiendance the first day was 150, mostly young people. There is not a better or more modern pool this side of Sacramento. The change rooms are well lighted, ventilated, and have cement floors. Lavatories are adequate and serviceable. In fact, everything is all-set for a grand, healthy, summer of fun for Nevada City’s younger generation. Business must come before. pleaswre, for there is rarely any pleasure in the world unless business, sometime, somewhere, has laid a_ substantial foundation for. it. Money must be provided for the municipal park. It is possible that later on a ‘small tax to provide for the park and the swimming pool, can be budgeted, just as now we have a special tax for the public library. From many points of view, the park and swimming pool, are just as important to the community as the library. As years go by and improvements are gradually added to the park its recreational service to the community. will be increased. In the meantime, until conditions warrant setting aside a special fund provided for in the tax levy, it will probably be necessary: for the park commission to raise a considerable part of the cost of maintaining the 7001 and park by charging a fee, not for using the swimming pool, but for the lockers in the change room. There those patrons of the. pool who wish to leave their clothes in good order or Who carry valuables in their pockets may leave them in safety for a small fee. The pool will be free to any body who comes there with his or her. own bathing suit, and _ the change room is also free. This, in accordance with the promises made the people of Nevada City when the Donds were voted some ten years ago. Stating it briefly, the city councii,ghas put it up squarely to the park commission to operate park and pool at as little cost to the tax pay“rs as possible. In yesterday’s issue of Valley Morning Union appears an article written by John W. O'Neill, upon Nevada City’s new park, which comprehensively describes the park, its natural beauty, improvements . {hus far made, and the task confront. ‘ing the city council and park com. mission to maintain and develop Its . t is hoped that every tax payer and . very citizen will read that for it gives an exact account of what has been the Grass! article and what needs to be accomplished. The recom: eendation that the city charter be so amended that a tax may be levied accomplished or the park and pool, in same man. jer as is now done for the city’s pub. lic library, is one that will be ap. proved, we believe, by all citizens who wish to see Nevada City progTwo weeks ago a_ cold-blooded murder took place at the Salmon mine. Two weeks ago—~and the people are beginning to murmur: ‘“Another murderer escapes justice. Over a year ago in this city a young man died under circumstances that indicated murder, or at least, manslaughter. Two years ago a San Francisco policeman was found dead, with six bullet holes in different parts of his anatomy, in a hotel lavatory in Grass Valley. The verdict, strange as it may seem, in this case was ‘‘suicide.”’ Far be it from this newspaper to sit in judgment on our peace officers. We believe in them, believe they do their level best in appreheneding criminals, and believe their batting average is as good or better than that of other peace officers of the state. And on top of every other consideration is the memory of that Nevada County sheriff of the Nineties, who was taunted with failure to capture a notorious stage robber and murderer. This man, faking his rifle early one morning, took the trail alone to Cement Hill, found his man, killed him, and was himself slain. Those who taunted him were answesed. Thus, without one word of criticism, we are impressed not only by these local incidents, but also by length and breadth of,the land which indicate that the business of appre. scholarship must ‘Vol Be No. 62 The County Sea t Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA _ The GOLD Center ~ FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1935. Before a great audience of happy parents, younger brothers and sisters, proud uncles and aunts, cheering friends, in the Nevada Theatre, last. evening thirty five boys and girls received their diplomas in commencement ceremony of more than usual impréssiveness. For the theme of the commencement, chosen by the high school faculty and admirably treated by the five speakers of the class, was: ‘‘Challenges”’. Following orchestral selections by the high school orchestra directed by L. E. Sweeney, there followed an invocation by the Rey.: Father Patrick O’Reilly. The president of the class of 1§ 5D, Harley M. Leete, Jr., then gave an introductory address. This was followed by the four class speakers lenges to Ideals’; Richard Marriott, “Challenge to Courage’; Franklin Tuttle, “Challenge to Achievement’; Audrey Davis, ‘Challenge to World Peace.” Interspersed through the .program were: a clarinet solo by Merle Coulter, a vocal solo by Cecil Schiffne:, a brass trio by Richard Bennett, Cecil Schiffner, and Richard Marriott. At the conclusion Principal H. BE. Kjorlie presented the graduating class to the audience, and P. G. Scadden, school director, gave each graduate a diploma. The Rey. H.'H. Buckner pronounced the benediction. Students graduating were: Isabel Dunlap, Mary Warnecke, Mae Arbogast, Helen Rickard, Nathaniel Robins, Richard Marriott, Virginia Day, Adele Cunningham, Beryl Granholm, Madelyne Thompson, Goldie Smith, Audrey Davis, Lloyd Haddy, Elsa Winney, Una Coughlan, Emma Santinelli, Irene Felice, Oral Keller, Hazel Smart, Margery Williams, Alice O’Hannesian, Nathelleé Worthley. Harley Leete, Warreh Mooers, Dor-. othy Aldridge, Richard Bennett, . Merle Coulter, Merle Hocking, Betty Foote, Claris Holland, Albert Pratti, Isabelle Dunlap, speaking: on ‘‘Chal-. ! Throng Cheers Class of °35 at Commencement from four or our. élass, thoughts on these points. Just now, when the United States and the world are slowly recovering from one of the worst depressions in modern. history, there is a trend toward a different form of government—no one can say what form; and at the moment, the European situation is said to be approaching the condition of 1914. Because of these movements, we are living in a period of unusually rapid change. Let us compare the young high school graduate of this year with the crew of a boat in a swift stream. We will call the stream the ‘River of History,”’ and the boat “‘government.”’ When the river is straight and placid, the skill, the achievement and the .courdge of the pilot and crew are not tested or strained—-neither is the quality of the boat’s timber, or the wisdom with which it has been assembled—none of these or rotten spots revealed, or hidden cowardice and selefishness and inefficiency that may be in the crew who run the ship. None of these things are likely to be diclosed. Thus it is with the world in times of prosthe boat runs on foul waters, swift currents, hidden bars, then the pilot, the crew, and the ship are tested. If all are found true the vessel finds its way safely onward, but if the pilot and the crew have not achieved skill in their calling, if their ideals are not high enough to lett them look to the general rather than the individual good, if they have not courage, and if their boat is not sound, they meet with disaster. Such a situation is much like the) present state of affairs. When there is prosperity and plenty, and gvoernment is most secure, mediocrity in achievement, in ideals, and in courage, can get safely by. But when things happen rapidly, and there are sudden changes, then the individual. or the state that would avoid disaster must be able, honest, and brave. The United States and the world! have now reached rough water. The timber of the government, the wisdom with which it was assembled, and the quality of the gevernmental crew are all being tested. It remains to be seen whether the national government will survive the . Maurene Perry, Cecil Schiffner, Mar. garet Thomas, Franklin Tuttle. Mr. Kjovlie announced the presentation of following . diplamas, that! Harley M. Leete, Jr., had been award. . ed the Harriet M. The award, on high Hauber scholarcommittee ship. making this recommendation of the faculty, consists of @G. J. Rector, P.O. Strandberg, and W, R. Gracie. The student receiving the school matriculate in University of California. the . To Isabelle Dunlap went the Hon-. or Society scholarship, awarded by . the California Scholarship Federation, Chapter 10. Miss Dunlap was . made a life member of the Federation, The Bausch and Lomb Science . award, a silved medal, was given Mae! Arbogast. The five scholastic students with highest ranking were Isabelle . Dunlap, Mae Arbogast, Harley Leete . Jry., Margery Williams and Ohannesian. Margery Williamsi was elected seal bearer of the Honor Society. Graduates winning perfect attendance records were: Elsa Winney, Beryl Granholm, Alice Ohannesian. Following are the addresses of the five students. mentioned above: CLASS INTRODUCTION (By HARLEY M. LEETE, Jr.) Reverend gentlemen, members of the board of education, friends, fellow students, and faculty. The class of 1935 realizes that as it leaves school it faces conditions which make demands‘ upon character, greater, perhaps, than any other age has done. We know that we shall be challenged at every turn to meet new situations and demands in this rapidly changing world. We realize that there will be challenges to our ideals, our courage, our ability to achieve, and our part in maintaining world peace. You will hear tonight hending and bringing criminals to justice, is one requiring intensive, specialized training. The man who is elected sheriff, notwithstanding all the good qualities which win ‘him the office, is seldom équipped to deal with desperate, often highly intelligent, criminals. In this country the old saying: ‘Murder will out,” is not true. Too many murders remain mysteries. The fault is in our antiquated, horse-days system of crime detection. . States does not seem to lean toward . . mit the placid. following ‘of the son i} must be . affeet his . and his job. storm. At the present the United the doctrines of Russia, Italy, or Germany, but.the future is most uncertain. E Now the same conditions that test. governments test individuals. In a period of change, as this twentieth century, individuals who would be} successful must ‘have real courage, real ideals, and must be able to achieve real things. The new order is too different from the old to perin his father’s footsteps. Perhaps in recent years the father’s job has been completely eliminated, and at any rate, it must be tackled from an entirely new .angle. ‘The young man. who would ‘take over hisfather’s! business cannot coitent himself . with studying the business alone but alert to the changes now . constantly going on about him in economics, government, social conditions, and labor, and must try to find out how each of these are going to country, his community, So in this group of students before you, you may well know that those whowill be successful are not going negessarily to be those who now bossess the obvious practical advantages of money and position, but the young men and women who’ have their full share of courage, high ideals, and the ability to achieve. These are the graduates who will meet fairly and Squarely the challenges of a changing world. CHALLENGE TO IDEALS (By ISABEL DUNLAP) We are living at this moment in a country that was founded’ on ideals, and one that has acted in most of its crucial instances according to its ideals. Our country is still young and youth respects ideals. But with nations as with individuals, when burdens becomes heavy and the struggle becomes hard, there can be a letdown in perseyerance which, it is the duty of each on-coming generation to guard against. When we leave our class rooms to-. morrow, and shortly there after out homes, we shall assume our part in the directions of the welfare of our country. We must be aware of our responsibilities to the’ country which has educated us and alive to its immediate needs, so that we shall discharge honorable our obligations to its future. A time like this calls for a searching of the soul to determine what~its-standards are going tobe. America has arrived at the glorious point in it history. It has achieved marvels; it has explored and -enjoyed its resources;' it has amassed wealth; it has lived in luxury; its citizens have revelled in an individual freedom known to no other people on earth. The roll of history warns us that the glorious point is the danger point. It is our onsibiiity to see that her glories shall their. things are tested, nor are mistakes! perity and little change. But when . ‘ance. It is the living principle that ; work are . ence upon one another in all the re-! lest we too might be tempted to the coward’s oblivion when crises arise in our lives. knowledge is the desire to gain power.'The greater our knowledge, the greater our power for good or evil, and the greater the necessity for courage to direct the use of power. POOR OLD DOBBIN AND DAPPLE RISE UP FROM YOUR GRAVES, WHINNEY! The motor car elintinated the horse, and of all the auto makers unquestionably Henry Ford eliminated the most horses. The sound of a mower and the characteristic chug-chug of a. Ford jitney resounded yesterday, in the meadow front yard of Jack Niv;ens. Everett Robinson was making hay for his cow. The fragrant meadow grass fell before the keen blade. The Ford at low gear driven by Marvin Hart did the job in two hours. But little the cow cares when we cured ,hay comes trundling into her shed. Dapple land Dobbin are only shades from . Yesteryear and the hay is real. . State the construction of a camp at Spring Creek one and a half Hill that will house 240 transient men ; When completed. It, will be a SERA ‘camp under the supervision of Mr. Sharp of the State Forestry Department. supervising miles soufhepst of Columbia : work in order to get it done as quicki ly as possible. A few of these men are from Sacramento, but them are SERA and men of Columbia Hill. Men are to be brought in from the outside for this camp. These men will be employed in not be dimmed~by the dangerous softness and ultimate.decay that is too likely to follow upon success. Our generation in particular needs to face this danger sanely. We have grown up surrounded by all the convenieneces that make for easy living. To most of us the luxuries of life are merely. our necessities. They have been showered upon us in the natural course of events, and we do not often stop to question their source, or the possible effect on ourselves if these necessities should be suddenly withdrawn. I should say that the most significant challenge to. our present age, and the one which demands our deepest consideration, is the challenge to our attitude toward work. How we meet that challenge individually will measure our continued success nationally. Work is the great character builder. Its relentless exactions call for disciplined obedience, self-control}, attention, application and persevermoves men and nations onward. Though its performance may be a burden, its end is always an honor and a glory. We are so constituted building roads, cutting fire trails. ing two years to complete is contemplated. State Puts Transient = Camp at Spring Creek — fanger Will F. Sharp is . About sixteen men are rushing the) most of) About 65 miles of road work requir. Mr. Sharp states his local men are now. building a telephone line from Deer Creek Mountain jo Howe Hill, three miles below Colfax, or a’ distance of about twelve miles. The lookout was built at-Howell Hill last fall. ; George Evers, who was on Banner Lookout last season ,is again on the job, having been there about three weeks. The other lookout stations will be filled in a short time or as soon as the grass dries up. Under supervision of State Rang« er Sharp SERA men will complete a Z three mile, 200 foot wide, fire trail around North San Juan next week. constructed between seven and eight miles of roads and cut a 50 foot swath on each side of them, in the neighborhood: of North San Juan. courage that will allow us to retrace our steps, if necessary to retract an error. This courage is not hard to attain, we find it so much in our studies of present day and past history. We have a perfect example of courage of this type in our own President Roosevelt. Here is a man that. has risen through sheer strength of will, by an’ innate courage, that knew no defeat. Risen, until, he is carrying along, through sheer force tremendous that of will, millions of his fellow Americans to a better mode of living, to a time when depression will merely mean a hole in the ground. Not only in this man do we find this courage so exemplified, it is there in the lives of many others whose own lives may well afford us an inspiration. These people, leaders in life, acknowledged leaders in theii separate fields of endeavor, gave everything to an ideal and pursued that ideal to fulfillment with cowage. that we can only truly enjoy what we have earned through toil; and . that toil is the most satisfying whicn' has an ideal goal; one that appeals to the mind, but reach. It is this desire to search alGey ies the eae patos his majestic and sublime Symphony ; ay . -}in 10-1-10-S,. Doing this, knowing on ee agp perenne full well that he would never hear job with the idea that we are challenged to do something well; if we look upon the work that comes our way not as if it were unworthy of our fine powers; then we are approaching preity near to life’s highest ideal. is always out of: Helen Keller, triumphant over the handicap of deafness and blindness leading thousands .of: similarly affligted persons to a richer life is another example of this splendid courage. Picture Beethoven, courageous over his deafness, giving to the world its glorious beauty. And Milton, locked forever in the dark caverns of the blind, gave the world his ‘Il Penseroso.” Not for financial gain, not for fame, genius for some reason being usually recognized only after death. But because his soul must have an outlet. Only Closely associated with ideals of ideals of duty. These are. a part of our inheritance from those}: whose responsibility. we have been . through all .our years; first, from} our parents who have as firmly ex-! acted from us our duty to them as' they have faithfully discharged ; theirs to us; and later from all those! who have had the responsibility of; our education. Now it becomes our; duty to.practice those ideals in our . social and civic as well as in our. economic .yelations. Man was not made to live alone, and our. dependlations of our lives requires that we! remember the ideals of duty we have { inherited, and pass them on height-; ened, if possible, to our SUCCESSO?S. . With these two ideals of work and! duty dominant in the minds of her! children, America would have little to fear tor her future. Hard-working men who were faithful.to their duty to God and their fellows started. this country on her course; shall we be the idlers and shirkers of responsibility who would divert that course from its ideal goal? CHALLENGE TO COURAGE (By RICHARD MARRIOTT) + Fellow Classmates, Honored Guests and Friends: A short time ago our newspapers and magazines were making frequent copy of t violent deaths at their own hands of men prominent in the industrial, financial and social life of America. Desperate men who were faced suddenly with the collapse of their buildings of a lifetime stepped out the windows of their skyscraper offices, or less spectacularly ended everything with a bullet. : It was a sorry spectacle to present to the young. generation in our country. We have been trained to a different ideal of courage. Our studies of men and events in American history have not prepared us to see situations dominating men; ,to see men ignobly yielding to have what canker can take stock of, our moral resources The motive behind our pursuit of It will take courage, a high idealistic courage to do this, the type of 4 eireum: ft stances and weakly admitting defeat. We wonder been eating at the vitals of American manhood. We are challenged to ‘We must do our own thinking, contoo, because he had the courage to rise over an affliction. The same sublime type of courage that is needment, regardless of what the world may say. ° There is a word very commonly heard these days—a word that has been a veritable bugaboo during the past few years—‘‘Depression.’’ To those men whose sole idea had been the piling up of dollars, the accumulation of material things, this “old man depression”’ did bring utter collapse and ruin. But to those whose idea of the value of things worth while could not be measured in the terms of dollars and cents, the leanness of the past few years has brought no disaster. In this fact lies a significant lesson for close observers. ve Throughout our study of leaders and men in all fields of human achi, evement—-in exploration, in science;in invention, in architecture, in all the arts—-what do we find to be the mainspring of their successesIs it the desire for material wealth or ~ public applause, or selfish gain? Or is it, on the other hand, a driving need to do the job for the job’s sake, and .for the general good that> will grow from it? k pay Consider Capt.James Cook, James Watt, Madame Curie, Thomas EHdison, Count Marconi, Admira] Byrd, Colonel Lindberg—or any other illustrious name on the long roll of achievement—rnd you have the answer, Their achievement was the result of two factors which will meet every challeng® to achievement in any age and under all conditions; namely, patient labor, and a complete forgetfulness of self in service _ to others, So let us not. forget to make our first concern a spiritual growth. Let us lay hold of the real things in life . and cling to them firmly. The joy ; of reading good books, the thrill of ~ the glories of nature all about us, the music that sings in the heart if we but listen, the privilege of gsered in order that we may, with our knowledge, live our lives to the utmost and do -some little good for humanity, or at the very. least not detract from the good. that has al-} i ready been done. { A courage that will enable us, the class of ’85, to go on, facing the fu. ture always, attempting to reas. semble from the present chaos a. greater country, . tant encchaniatermetinems t CHALLENGE TO ACHIEVEMENT (By FRANKLIN TUTTLE)Honored guests, fellow classmates, friends: = This night, June 6, will be a memorable date in the minds of the class of 1935. It marks the completion of a task which had been set before us, the achievement of. a goal to which we have looked forward eagerly during the past four years. During this time life has been good ‘to us, has given to us lavishly. It now becomes our duty to give in return. Every completed task brings with it a sense of power which is more ; than a compensation for the téedious. ness of the work. The ambition which . stirs within us is never completely satisfied. So while we feel a certain sense of pride at having accomplished our high school course, we feel strongly also, the urge to step out into the bigger and broader fields of endeavor. The pleasure of achievement makes life really worth living. If we once set out to perform a task and ultimately accomplish that task we feel a sense of deep satisfaction. Some of us may be _called upon to perform great tasks, others the more humble ones, but whatever the job before us, it challenges us to conscientious, whole-hearted effort. The changing social and economic order of today calls for a sturdier type of citizenship than this country has yet seen. Here is a challenge not one of us can afford to ignore. sider and weigh new questions from all possible angles. No man can do our thinking for us. In the words of one of our greatest educators, Dr. David Starr Jordan, let us keep our own heads under our own hats. No man is free unless he is mentally free. Once we have decided upon a definite course of action in any matter whatsoever, let us have the courage to act according to our best judg-} e ‘ vice to our fellow men—all these and a thousand other riches are ours if we but look upon them as the greatest of all treasures. Always old age is passing from the scene, Strong, clean, clear-cut youth is taking its place in the world of affairs and must in its turn make history. What this history will be is ours to say. If we but apply the lessons we have learned in high school we shall win whatever is ahead. What are these lessons? Application to the task at hand, fair Play learned on our athletic fields, a spirit of tolerance in our dealings with those about us, cooperation with our fellow workers, and the will to accomplish a given job—in just such measure ag these lessons have been learned, so great will be our achievement. Si THE CHALLENGE OF YOUTH FOR, WORLD PEACE(By AUDREY DAVIS Honored Guests, Friends Classmates: : With war clouds imminent over” Europe and perhaps our own country, too, the youth of America is at-— tempting to take a decisive step forward. We have pledged ourselves. for world peace. ” In a recent poll conducted by the Literary Digest in thirty eastern colleges it was learned that 66 percen! of the students believed that th United States could stay out of an« other war; 84 percent stated that they would not bear arms if Unitea States were the invader; and 87 percent believed in government control of the arms and munitions industries, : Youth is not only opposed to war, for that is not enough, but it is als working against the forces be war. If, with our hedp, another should be averated, we would be only slightly nearer our des: 1 tion which is: world peace, Hat greed, jealousy, prejudice, and — dustrial competition, all of w cause international conflict, are elements that can be removed short period of time, or by the vention of a single war. We rea this fact, but we also rea’ 4 and . During this spring these men have————

za oe a ee ie lie ie ae . * Ny -aundreds of others throughout the Thinking . . Out Loud Nevada City Nugget Nevada City Nugget is a Member of the United Press And California Newspaper Publishers Association adv Your Hometown Newspaper community. Readers and good builder. helps build your ertisers make it a aaa (By H. M. L.) With a long jubilant succession of splashes of the municipal pool openod Tuesday at one o'clock. Just in time to save, you might say, Nevada City’s five or six hundred youngsters from roasting to death in .unseasonably warm weather. The atiendance the first day was 150, mostly young people. There is not a better or more modern pool this side of Sacramento. The change rooms are well lighted, ventilated, and have cement floors. Lavatories are adequate and serviceable. In fact, everything is all-set for a grand, healthy, summer of fun for Nevada City’s younger generation. Business must come before. pleaswre, for there is rarely any pleasure in the world unless business, sometime, somewhere, has laid a_ substantial foundation for. it. Money must be provided for the municipal park. It is possible that later on a ‘small tax to provide for the park and the swimming pool, can be budgeted, just as now we have a special tax for the public library. From many points of view, the park and swimming pool, are just as important to the community as the library. As years go by and improvements are gradually added to the park its recreational service to the community. will be increased. In the meantime, until conditions warrant setting aside a special fund provided for in the tax levy, it will probably be necessary: for the park commission to raise a considerable part of the cost of maintaining the 7001 and park by charging a fee, not for using the swimming pool, but for the lockers in the change room. There those patrons of the. pool who wish to leave their clothes in good order or Who carry valuables in their pockets may leave them in safety for a small fee. The pool will be free to any body who comes there with his or her. own bathing suit, and _ the change room is also free. This, in accordance with the promises made the people of Nevada City when the Donds were voted some ten years ago. Stating it briefly, the city councii,ghas put it up squarely to the park commission to operate park and pool at as little cost to the tax pay“rs as possible. In yesterday’s issue of Valley Morning Union appears an article written by John W. O'Neill, upon Nevada City’s new park, which comprehensively describes the park, its natural beauty, improvements . {hus far made, and the task confront. ‘ing the city council and park com. mission to maintain and develop Its . t is hoped that every tax payer and . very citizen will read that for it gives an exact account of what has been the Grass! article and what needs to be accomplished. The recom: eendation that the city charter be so amended that a tax may be levied accomplished or the park and pool, in same man. jer as is now done for the city’s pub. lic library, is one that will be ap. proved, we believe, by all citizens who wish to see Nevada City progTwo weeks ago a_ cold-blooded murder took place at the Salmon mine. Two weeks ago—~and the people are beginning to murmur: ‘“Another murderer escapes justice. Over a year ago in this city a young man died under circumstances that indicated murder, or at least, manslaughter. Two years ago a San Francisco policeman was found dead, with six bullet holes in different parts of his anatomy, in a hotel lavatory in Grass Valley. The verdict, strange as it may seem, in this case was ‘‘suicide.”’ Far be it from this newspaper to sit in judgment on our peace officers. We believe in them, believe they do their level best in appreheneding criminals, and believe their batting average is as good or better than that of other peace officers of the state. And on top of every other consideration is the memory of that Nevada County sheriff of the Nineties, who was taunted with failure to capture a notorious stage robber and murderer. This man, faking his rifle early one morning, took the trail alone to Cement Hill, found his man, killed him, and was himself slain. Those who taunted him were answesed. Thus, without one word of criticism, we are impressed not only by these local incidents, but also by length and breadth of,the land which indicate that the business of appre. scholarship must ‘Vol Be No. 62 The County Sea t Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA _ The GOLD Center ~ FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1935. Before a great audience of happy parents, younger brothers and sisters, proud uncles and aunts, cheering friends, in the Nevada Theatre, last. evening thirty five boys and girls received their diplomas in commencement ceremony of more than usual impréssiveness. For the theme of the commencement, chosen by the high school faculty and admirably treated by the five speakers of the class, was: ‘‘Challenges”’. Following orchestral selections by the high school orchestra directed by L. E. Sweeney, there followed an invocation by the Rey.: Father Patrick O’Reilly. The president of the class of 1§ 5D, Harley M. Leete, Jr., then gave an introductory address. This was followed by the four class speakers lenges to Ideals’; Richard Marriott, “Challenge to Courage’; Franklin Tuttle, “Challenge to Achievement’; Audrey Davis, ‘Challenge to World Peace.” Interspersed through the .program were: a clarinet solo by Merle Coulter, a vocal solo by Cecil Schiffne:, a brass trio by Richard Bennett, Cecil Schiffner, and Richard Marriott. At the conclusion Principal H. BE. Kjorlie presented the graduating class to the audience, and P. G. Scadden, school director, gave each graduate a diploma. The Rey. H.'H. Buckner pronounced the benediction. Students graduating were: Isabel Dunlap, Mary Warnecke, Mae Arbogast, Helen Rickard, Nathaniel Robins, Richard Marriott, Virginia Day, Adele Cunningham, Beryl Granholm, Madelyne Thompson, Goldie Smith, Audrey Davis, Lloyd Haddy, Elsa Winney, Una Coughlan, Emma Santinelli, Irene Felice, Oral Keller, Hazel Smart, Margery Williams, Alice O’Hannesian, Nathelleé Worthley. Harley Leete, Warreh Mooers, Dor-. othy Aldridge, Richard Bennett, . Merle Coulter, Merle Hocking, Betty Foote, Claris Holland, Albert Pratti, Isabelle Dunlap, speaking: on ‘‘Chal-. ! Throng Cheers Class of °35 at Commencement from four or our. élass, thoughts on these points. Just now, when the United States and the world are slowly recovering from one of the worst depressions in modern. history, there is a trend toward a different form of government—no one can say what form; and at the moment, the European situation is said to be approaching the condition of 1914. Because of these movements, we are living in a period of unusually rapid change. Let us compare the young high school graduate of this year with the crew of a boat in a swift stream. We will call the stream the ‘River of History,”’ and the boat “‘government.”’ When the river is straight and placid, the skill, the achievement and the .courdge of the pilot and crew are not tested or strained—-neither is the quality of the boat’s timber, or the wisdom with which it has been assembled—none of these or rotten spots revealed, or hidden cowardice and selefishness and inefficiency that may be in the crew who run the ship. None of these things are likely to be diclosed. Thus it is with the world in times of prosthe boat runs on foul waters, swift currents, hidden bars, then the pilot, the crew, and the ship are tested. If all are found true the vessel finds its way safely onward, but if the pilot and the crew have not achieved skill in their calling, if their ideals are not high enough to lett them look to the general rather than the individual good, if they have not courage, and if their boat is not sound, they meet with disaster. Such a situation is much like the) present state of affairs. When there is prosperity and plenty, and gvoernment is most secure, mediocrity in achievement, in ideals, and in courage, can get safely by. But when things happen rapidly, and there are sudden changes, then the individual. or the state that would avoid disaster must be able, honest, and brave. The United States and the world! have now reached rough water. The timber of the government, the wisdom with which it was assembled, and the quality of the gevernmental crew are all being tested. It remains to be seen whether the national government will survive the . Maurene Perry, Cecil Schiffner, Mar. garet Thomas, Franklin Tuttle. Mr. Kjovlie announced the presentation of following . diplamas, that! Harley M. Leete, Jr., had been award. . ed the Harriet M. The award, on high Hauber scholarcommittee ship. making this recommendation of the faculty, consists of @G. J. Rector, P.O. Strandberg, and W, R. Gracie. The student receiving the school matriculate in University of California. the . To Isabelle Dunlap went the Hon-. or Society scholarship, awarded by . the California Scholarship Federation, Chapter 10. Miss Dunlap was . made a life member of the Federation, The Bausch and Lomb Science . award, a silved medal, was given Mae! Arbogast. The five scholastic students with highest ranking were Isabelle . Dunlap, Mae Arbogast, Harley Leete . Jry., Margery Williams and Ohannesian. Margery Williamsi was elected seal bearer of the Honor Society. Graduates winning perfect attendance records were: Elsa Winney, Beryl Granholm, Alice Ohannesian. Following are the addresses of the five students. mentioned above: CLASS INTRODUCTION (By HARLEY M. LEETE, Jr.) Reverend gentlemen, members of the board of education, friends, fellow students, and faculty. The class of 1935 realizes that as it leaves school it faces conditions which make demands‘ upon character, greater, perhaps, than any other age has done. We know that we shall be challenged at every turn to meet new situations and demands in this rapidly changing world. We realize that there will be challenges to our ideals, our courage, our ability to achieve, and our part in maintaining world peace. You will hear tonight hending and bringing criminals to justice, is one requiring intensive, specialized training. The man who is elected sheriff, notwithstanding all the good qualities which win ‘him the office, is seldom équipped to deal with desperate, often highly intelligent, criminals. In this country the old saying: ‘Murder will out,” is not true. Too many murders remain mysteries. The fault is in our antiquated, horse-days system of crime detection. . States does not seem to lean toward . . mit the placid. following ‘of the son i} must be . affeet his . and his job. storm. At the present the United the doctrines of Russia, Italy, or Germany, but.the future is most uncertain. E Now the same conditions that test. governments test individuals. In a period of change, as this twentieth century, individuals who would be} successful must ‘have real courage, real ideals, and must be able to achieve real things. The new order is too different from the old to perin his father’s footsteps. Perhaps in recent years the father’s job has been completely eliminated, and at any rate, it must be tackled from an entirely new .angle. ‘The young man. who would ‘take over hisfather’s! business cannot coitent himself . with studying the business alone but alert to the changes now . constantly going on about him in economics, government, social conditions, and labor, and must try to find out how each of these are going to country, his community, So in this group of students before you, you may well know that those whowill be successful are not going negessarily to be those who now bossess the obvious practical advantages of money and position, but the young men and women who’ have their full share of courage, high ideals, and the ability to achieve. These are the graduates who will meet fairly and Squarely the challenges of a changing world. CHALLENGE TO IDEALS (By ISABEL DUNLAP) We are living at this moment in a country that was founded’ on ideals, and one that has acted in most of its crucial instances according to its ideals. Our country is still young and youth respects ideals. But with nations as with individuals, when burdens becomes heavy and the struggle becomes hard, there can be a letdown in perseyerance which, it is the duty of each on-coming generation to guard against. When we leave our class rooms to-. morrow, and shortly there after out homes, we shall assume our part in the directions of the welfare of our country. We must be aware of our responsibilities to the’ country which has educated us and alive to its immediate needs, so that we shall discharge honorable our obligations to its future. A time like this calls for a searching of the soul to determine what~its-standards are going tobe. America has arrived at the glorious point in it history. It has achieved marvels; it has explored and -enjoyed its resources;' it has amassed wealth; it has lived in luxury; its citizens have revelled in an individual freedom known to no other people on earth. The roll of history warns us that the glorious point is the danger point. It is our onsibiiity to see that her glories shall their. things are tested, nor are mistakes! perity and little change. But when . ‘ance. It is the living principle that ; work are . ence upon one another in all the re-! lest we too might be tempted to the coward’s oblivion when crises arise in our lives. knowledge is the desire to gain power.'The greater our knowledge, the greater our power for good or evil,

and the greater the necessity for courage to direct the use of power. POOR OLD DOBBIN AND DAPPLE RISE UP FROM YOUR GRAVES, WHINNEY! The motor car elintinated the horse, and of all the auto makers unquestionably Henry Ford eliminated the most horses. The sound of a mower and the characteristic chug-chug of a. Ford jitney resounded yesterday, in the meadow front yard of Jack Niv;ens. Everett Robinson was making hay for his cow. The fragrant meadow grass fell before the keen blade. The Ford at low gear driven by Marvin Hart did the job in two hours. But little the cow cares when we cured ,hay comes trundling into her shed. Dapple land Dobbin are only shades from . Yesteryear and the hay is real. . State the construction of a camp at Spring Creek one and a half Hill that will house 240 transient men ; When completed. It, will be a SERA ‘camp under the supervision of Mr. Sharp of the State Forestry Department. supervising miles soufhepst of Columbia : work in order to get it done as quicki ly as possible. A few of these men are from Sacramento, but them are SERA and men of Columbia Hill. Men are to be brought in from the outside for this camp. These men will be employed in not be dimmed~by the dangerous softness and ultimate.decay that is too likely to follow upon success. Our generation in particular needs to face this danger sanely. We have grown up surrounded by all the convenieneces that make for easy living. To most of us the luxuries of life are merely. our necessities. They have been showered upon us in the natural course of events, and we do not often stop to question their source, or the possible effect on ourselves if these necessities should be suddenly withdrawn. I should say that the most significant challenge to. our present age, and the one which demands our deepest consideration, is the challenge to our attitude toward work. How we meet that challenge individually will measure our continued success nationally. Work is the great character builder. Its relentless exactions call for disciplined obedience, self-control}, attention, application and persevermoves men and nations onward. Though its performance may be a burden, its end is always an honor and a glory. We are so constituted building roads, cutting fire trails. ing two years to complete is contemplated. State Puts Transient = Camp at Spring Creek — fanger Will F. Sharp is . About sixteen men are rushing the) most of) About 65 miles of road work requir. Mr. Sharp states his local men are now. building a telephone line from Deer Creek Mountain jo Howe Hill, three miles below Colfax, or a’ distance of about twelve miles. The lookout was built at-Howell Hill last fall. ; George Evers, who was on Banner Lookout last season ,is again on the job, having been there about three weeks. The other lookout stations will be filled in a short time or as soon as the grass dries up. Under supervision of State Rang« er Sharp SERA men will complete a Z three mile, 200 foot wide, fire trail around North San Juan next week. constructed between seven and eight miles of roads and cut a 50 foot swath on each side of them, in the neighborhood: of North San Juan. courage that will allow us to retrace our steps, if necessary to retract an error. This courage is not hard to attain, we find it so much in our studies of present day and past history. We have a perfect example of courage of this type in our own President Roosevelt. Here is a man that. has risen through sheer strength of will, by an’ innate courage, that knew no defeat. Risen, until, he is carrying along, through sheer force tremendous that of will, millions of his fellow Americans to a better mode of living, to a time when depression will merely mean a hole in the ground. Not only in this man do we find this courage so exemplified, it is there in the lives of many others whose own lives may well afford us an inspiration. These people, leaders in life, acknowledged leaders in theii separate fields of endeavor, gave everything to an ideal and pursued that ideal to fulfillment with cowage. that we can only truly enjoy what we have earned through toil; and . that toil is the most satisfying whicn' has an ideal goal; one that appeals to the mind, but reach. It is this desire to search alGey ies the eae patos his majestic and sublime Symphony ; ay . -}in 10-1-10-S,. Doing this, knowing on ee agp perenne full well that he would never hear job with the idea that we are challenged to do something well; if we look upon the work that comes our way not as if it were unworthy of our fine powers; then we are approaching preity near to life’s highest ideal. is always out of: Helen Keller, triumphant over the handicap of deafness and blindness leading thousands .of: similarly affligted persons to a richer life is another example of this splendid courage. Picture Beethoven, courageous over his deafness, giving to the world its glorious beauty. And Milton, locked forever in the dark caverns of the blind, gave the world his ‘Il Penseroso.” Not for financial gain, not for fame, genius for some reason being usually recognized only after death. But because his soul must have an outlet. Only Closely associated with ideals of ideals of duty. These are. a part of our inheritance from those}: whose responsibility. we have been . through all .our years; first, from} our parents who have as firmly ex-! acted from us our duty to them as' they have faithfully discharged ; theirs to us; and later from all those! who have had the responsibility of; our education. Now it becomes our; duty to.practice those ideals in our . social and civic as well as in our. economic .yelations. Man was not made to live alone, and our. dependlations of our lives requires that we! remember the ideals of duty we have { inherited, and pass them on height-; ened, if possible, to our SUCCESSO?S. . With these two ideals of work and! duty dominant in the minds of her! children, America would have little to fear tor her future. Hard-working men who were faithful.to their duty to God and their fellows started. this country on her course; shall we be the idlers and shirkers of responsibility who would divert that course from its ideal goal? CHALLENGE TO COURAGE (By RICHARD MARRIOTT) + Fellow Classmates, Honored Guests and Friends: A short time ago our newspapers and magazines were making frequent copy of t violent deaths at their own hands of men prominent in the industrial, financial and social life of America. Desperate men who were faced suddenly with the collapse of their buildings of a lifetime stepped out the windows of their skyscraper offices, or less spectacularly ended everything with a bullet. : It was a sorry spectacle to present to the young. generation in our country. We have been trained to a different ideal of courage. Our studies of men and events in American history have not prepared us to see situations dominating men; ,to see men ignobly yielding to have what canker can take stock of, our moral resources The motive behind our pursuit of It will take courage, a high idealistic courage to do this, the type of 4 eireum: ft stances and weakly admitting defeat. We wonder been eating at the vitals of American manhood. We are challenged to ‘We must do our own thinking, contoo, because he had the courage to rise over an affliction. The same sublime type of courage that is needment, regardless of what the world may say. ° There is a word very commonly heard these days—a word that has been a veritable bugaboo during the past few years—‘‘Depression.’’ To those men whose sole idea had been the piling up of dollars, the accumulation of material things, this “old man depression”’ did bring utter collapse and ruin. But to those whose idea of the value of things worth while could not be measured in the terms of dollars and cents, the leanness of the past few years has brought no disaster. In this fact lies a significant lesson for close observers. ve Throughout our study of leaders and men in all fields of human achi, evement—-in exploration, in science;in invention, in architecture, in all the arts—-what do we find to be the mainspring of their successesIs it the desire for material wealth or ~ public applause, or selfish gain? Or is it, on the other hand, a driving need to do the job for the job’s sake, and .for the general good that> will grow from it? k pay Consider Capt.James Cook, James Watt, Madame Curie, Thomas EHdison, Count Marconi, Admira] Byrd, Colonel Lindberg—or any other illustrious name on the long roll of achievement—rnd you have the answer, Their achievement was the result of two factors which will meet every challeng® to achievement in any age and under all conditions; namely, patient labor, and a complete forgetfulness of self in service _ to others, So let us not. forget to make our first concern a spiritual growth. Let us lay hold of the real things in life . and cling to them firmly. The joy ; of reading good books, the thrill of ~ the glories of nature all about us, the music that sings in the heart if we but listen, the privilege of gsered in order that we may, with our knowledge, live our lives to the utmost and do -some little good for humanity, or at the very. least not detract from the good. that has al-} i ready been done. { A courage that will enable us, the class of ’85, to go on, facing the fu. ture always, attempting to reas. semble from the present chaos a. greater country, . tant encchaniatermetinems t CHALLENGE TO ACHIEVEMENT (By FRANKLIN TUTTLE)Honored guests, fellow classmates, friends: = This night, June 6, will be a memorable date in the minds of the class of 1935. It marks the completion of a task which had been set before us, the achievement of. a goal to which we have looked forward eagerly during the past four years. During this time life has been good ‘to us, has given to us lavishly. It now becomes our duty to give in return. Every completed task brings with it a sense of power which is more ; than a compensation for the téedious. ness of the work. The ambition which . stirs within us is never completely satisfied. So while we feel a certain sense of pride at having accomplished our high school course, we feel strongly also, the urge to step out into the bigger and broader fields of endeavor. The pleasure of achievement makes life really worth living. If we once set out to perform a task and ultimately accomplish that task we feel a sense of deep satisfaction. Some of us may be _called upon to perform great tasks, others the more humble ones, but whatever the job before us, it challenges us to conscientious, whole-hearted effort. The changing social and economic order of today calls for a sturdier type of citizenship than this country has yet seen. Here is a challenge not one of us can afford to ignore. sider and weigh new questions from all possible angles. No man can do our thinking for us. In the words of one of our greatest educators, Dr. David Starr Jordan, let us keep our own heads under our own hats. No man is free unless he is mentally free. Once we have decided upon a definite course of action in any matter whatsoever, let us have the courage to act according to our best judg-} e ‘ vice to our fellow men—all these and a thousand other riches are ours if we but look upon them as the greatest of all treasures. Always old age is passing from the scene, Strong, clean, clear-cut youth is taking its place in the world of affairs and must in its turn make history. What this history will be is ours to say. If we but apply the lessons we have learned in high school we shall win whatever is ahead. What are these lessons? Application to the task at hand, fair Play learned on our athletic fields, a spirit of tolerance in our dealings with those about us, cooperation with our fellow workers, and the will to accomplish a given job—in just such measure ag these lessons have been learned, so great will be our achievement. Si THE CHALLENGE OF YOUTH FOR, WORLD PEACE(By AUDREY DAVIS Honored Guests, Friends Classmates: : With war clouds imminent over” Europe and perhaps our own country, too, the youth of America is at-— tempting to take a decisive step forward. We have pledged ourselves. for world peace. ” In a recent poll conducted by the Literary Digest in thirty eastern colleges it was learned that 66 percen! of the students believed that th United States could stay out of an« other war; 84 percent stated that they would not bear arms if Unitea States were the invader; and 87 percent believed in government control of the arms and munitions industries, : Youth is not only opposed to war, for that is not enough, but it is als working against the forces be war. If, with our hedp, another should be averated, we would be only slightly nearer our des: 1 tion which is: world peace, Hat greed, jealousy, prejudice, and — dustrial competition, all of w cause international conflict, are elements that can be removed short period of time, or by the vention of a single war. We rea this fact, but we also rea’ 4 and . During this spring these men have————