November 24, 1950 (6 pages)

i yi tt a ame Stars by Which to Guide! ‘Yesterday we Americans gathered around the festive boards to observe a day of reverent humility, -hallowed for eternity by the sacrifices of our Pilgrim forefathers. Thanksgiving day is no ordinary day—lIt is an ageless shrine for every patriot. It is the day that stands as a thundering rebuke to those who say there can be changing standards of integrity or a double standard of morality for individual and government: This day does not mark 2—Nevada City, California, Friday, November 24, 1950 305 Broad St.—Telephone-36——-_____---Published every Friday morning at Nevada City, California. : . Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Nevada City, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Member of California Newspaper Publishers Association. the beginning of the belief that freedom is, worth any sacrifice. Neither does it serve as an end to that belief. Thanksgiving day is not a day of rededication. It was KEN WRAY, Publisher Subscription: $2.60 year; $1.25 six months; 75c three. months. yf dedicated and consecrated for all time three centuries ago . another phrase. _ Like the Pilgrims we can make no re by those who died that we might walk as free men. It is rather for us the living, to borrow a phrase, to dedicaate treat from our rendezvous with destiny on the outcome of which depends the fate of our children and our chil our lives to the rekindling in the hearts of our country ° dren's children. Thanksgiving Day will stand as a monument to liberty . just so long as we in America have the courage to keep alive the principles of the Pilgrims. If we trade the precious birthright bequeathed by them to us for a mess of men the noblest flames of Pilgrim idealism on the altar of patriotism. Three centuries after the landing of the Pilgrims historians still speculate why they chose, the rock;bound New England shores, far removed from their original destina pottage from Washington, then it would crumble to dust "tion. One theory says’the captain of the Mayflower was bribed by English coloriial: interests to put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth Rock, and that on arrival at Plymouth . as a civilization sinks into the morass of failure. We must maintain the dignity-of the individual. We must fight the encroachment of bigness in government, he argued them into staying. Let us this Thanksgiving Day, join in a rededication to strengthen and straighten the main beam of our great . Ship of State so that it can sail majestically on through steer by something more modern than the true stars that the oceans of time. 5 ies Oetie e guided the Pilgrims. it serves as a monument to the failure of Communism in If we look up, we find the same true stars that guided ; ~ Scheming men have tried to bring us, like the MayAmerica? the Pilgrims to this new land. Like the Pilgrims, not all flower’s captain, into false harbors of foreign ideologies It was the dove of freedom, not the lust for money, that of us will survive in the annals of history, but that in not of our choosing. We have been endangered by cowimpelled the Pilgrims to uproot their lives from England. itself is not important. Our lives will be justified if the ardly navigators who would run with the winds of popular opinion than fight against the storm to stay on course. ‘Our Ship of State wallows in the trough of debt, buffeted by the winds of special privilege and the pressurés of vociferous minorities. It drifts perilously close to the They matched their lives against the funds raised by the principles we believe to be right and true survive. 70 merchants of England. Thanksgiving Day is a mon. We must re-kindle in our hearts the simple faith that, ument to the American way which is based on the strivsustained the Pilgrims and cherish liberty of mankind above all worldly treasures. ing for individual freedom and individual gain. Let us lift our hearts®with It was in’ Plymouth Colony, too, that Communisrn confidence to the dawn of a new glory for America. The 330 years that have elapsed since the Pilgrims Despite the threat of starvation, the share and should support the people rather than the people support share alike system couldn’t produce enough food. But stepped ashore on a stern and rock-bound ¢oast are but only enough government to govern. when Governor Bradford assigned a parcel of land to a pinpoint on the panorama of time; but it is a landmark ‘, There is no need to retell the story that everyone knows each family then. corn was raised beyond the wildest in the history of humanity. Because the record of what eee + ee they achieved here is written for eternity. —the story of that terrifying, storm tossed, miserably hopes. a es If we, this generation of Americans, can once again ‘wretched 66 day voyage of the tiny Mayflower, the heartIn the words of the Pilgrim governor, “the women now break of two return trips to England, the sickness and went willingly into the fields and took their little ones rekindle for America the fires of freedom. and a yearning misery as the mountainous seas smashed at the tiny, with them to set corn, which before would allege weakfor true liberty, then we will not have lived in vain. reef of disaster marking the belief that the government failed. ' ness and inability, whom to have compelled would have We can imagine the stark terror that swept the seasick been thought great tyranny and oppression.” 1 If we today are to be the instruments of strengthening company when they learned that the storm had cracked on was hand But—God’s the main beam of our Ship of State, we.must now re-dedbeam. main the Mayflower’s that ship. An artisan on board was bringing with him to icate our lives to those noble purposes of the Mayflower a brave new world a giant iron screw. With that deyice Compact. They are: . . To the glory of God. 2. The-ad Sargent’s Story There is more machinery at work in Grass Valley than in any equal extent of. territory in the county, if not in the state, outside of the cities. There are a number of excellent sawmills, and the lumber trade is extensive, and an excellent flouring mill, ‘but the place is probably more noted for its quartz mining than for anything else. The quartz men of Grass Valley have shown their “faith by works,” in an unwavering pertinacity of adhering to a once dubious branch of business through immense expense and apparently insurmountable difficulties. During the year 1852, owing to the water in the hills, a large expense was incurred to drain the claims; and taking the entire revenue and expenses ‘for the and the strong arms of stout hearted Pilgrims the beam vancement: of the Christian faith. 3. Frame just and of the tiny Mayflower was forced back straight into place. equal laws. 4. For the general good of all peoples.’ This We must resolve today to be instruments of strengthis a noble constitution for any nation—a charter for One ening and straightening the main beam of our Ship of World. State so that it can withstand the stresses and strains of The names of the Pilgrims are emblazoned in gold on the centuries to come. — the immortal pages of history because they had the courIt is time that we resolve to work and live by the same age to dare. The seed they bore of religious freedom and year, not a dollar was made out of the business. But 1853 gave true stars of ideals that guided the Pilgrims. They do popular government bore fruit upon the shores of a new better encouragement, and the business has been good, with little not belong only to the emblazoned pages of history. So land. We too can plant today the seed which swill bear fluctuation, ever since. 2, 1851, we had occasion to remark of Grass Valley: long as men’s hearts still burn with the belief that a man abundantly of the rich fruit of liberty and new hope for “We October think of but one place of Upper California (San Jose) which has the right to individual liberty and the right to worship generations yet unborn. will compare in pleasantness with Grass Valley. The dwellings among the trees, the gentle swelling of the hills, the beautiful. broad as he chooses, then the Pilgrim spirit still lives. successful The rock of Plymouth is the signpost of a valleys, and the air of mixed ‘primitiveness and business hustle, all Before the Pilgrims set foot.on New England, they civilization, the marker that says this was the route taken go to make up a delightful spot. first met in the crude and dingy’cabin of the Mayflower. by others who trod safely on before . . . that a successful “In -addition to all thih, heavy pulsations of the ‘many quartz It was there they laid for all time the cornerstone of all civilization found this the right way to go. The trail mills that are tirelessly laboring day and night, save on the Sabbath, give an.air of permanence and. solidity to the town unlike the’ the republican institutions of America. It was in that blazed by the Pilgrims tells us that this is the route. But many ephemeral, mine-crated towns that have arisen, prospered it also warns there can be no painless road to freedom and become deserted in California within a few years. The imtiny cabin that the first town meeting was held. provements taking place in Grass Valley are all of a solid nature: Das : It was there that the hand of \God helped the Pilgrims or security. handsome houses are being prepared for the coming winter. There We just don’t buy freedom: We just don't get freeare many families already settled write the immortal Mayflower compact that still lights in the town, and more are comup the sky of the world with the ‘nobility of, its purpose. dom even by fighting for it. We only gain freedom by ing, and when the pleasant harmonizing influences of female society And when. the Pilgrims set! foot on Plymouth rock, they living it. It takes not only raw courage to do that-—it are more largely added to Grass Valley, the sun will not shine on ' desireable residence. knelt and gave thanks to God. takes rare courage—not the explosive type of unreasona more “The miracles that enterprise can accomplish have no. better Cynics could say “for what?” Truly it took. stout ‘ing courage, but the rarest kind—sustained courage. example than at this town. Two or three years ago the echoes of hearts to face that waste of sand hills and sea grass, briars . . These. are the days that try the souls of men, to borrow its woods*were awakened only by the wild cry of bird. and beast, the almost equally wild and degraded Indian. The riches of and swamps, wind bent trees and unknown savages. The na CALM orits ofravines e J first attracted attention, then the treasure locked up in by . Pilgrims faced realities. . We seek out the snug harbors IT'S A FACT quartz, requiring skill and energy to obtain it. The demand created the supply, and as a result, powerful machinery is in motion, a of Utopia where we can avoid all struggle while we sniff permanent town has grown up, and the wilderness has changed s er nn Ma n ie the deadly opium that deludes us into thinking we can to a cheerful and crowded haunt of men. We have frequently weKt SVE \ ema ev get something in life for nothing. "We are content to visited the quartz mills in Grass Valley, but never without 2 neIE en \ wel l ie gaiee eeeMalel \ Saas hee dream of the living the world owes us, while we sneer at those who prize honesty and thrift. ' It was a desolate sight that greeted those Displaced Persons of three centuries ago. There were no government officials on hand to inspect or greet them. No park benches or firewood had been placed theré by a thoughtfully considerate parks department. No low cost housing project had been provided. No inspectors were on hand to demand that they work not more than 40 hours or for less than 75 cents an hour. : ‘ DouBLEHEADER BIUTIERFLYONE Lert HER SNAKES: WITH THE s a work has been going in which in rapidity of execution, grandness of result, and above all in practical usefulness, throws into the TNERYOOLZ00 héturally marked me renewed impression that, without stir or ostentation, in the midst of the mountains, and far from the theatre of former achievements, shade many which have been boasted as the trophies of centuries.” or In placer mining, Grass Valley has not been behind many other prominent localities. The present prespects are, that both quartz and placer mining will be there as permanent as elsewhere. dt has a peaceful and laborious population, and through the recent fire has entailed much individual loss, as a community, it continues to advance. The first ditch that supplied Grass Valley with water was the “Centreville,” dug in the fall and winter of 1850 by Ormsby and 0,cecCWe Cie ifs Lities There were no union orga nizers to preach that seniority was more important than others, taking the water of Wolf creek. The second was in the ability. Those D.P.’s of 1620 had to survive or perish by their fall of 1851, from the same course, by Day, Fouse & Co. “Murphy’s ditch” was dug by Murphy, O’Connor & Co.; in 185¥; the “Empire winter. Phelps & Gephart, from Little Deer creek. own efforts. And perish half of them did that first cruel But that price of freedom was not too high, for "it is to their eternal glory that none turned back for England the’ next year. . The Pilgrims came here with the same burning desire we echo today—the wish for freedom and security. But they sought the true security of real freedom—not the prison type security where independence. of action is for feited. a ditch” in 1852 by Whiting and others, hoth from Wolf Creek and They could have had that by remaining in Eng ee Thanksgiving Day is more than just a monument to the Pilgrims who crossed from the Old to the New World. It serves as a monument to the American way of life— . : its branches. 4 GON, p BY A CHINESE eis onl et 400 by The lead was discovered in the fall of* 1851, by Mathew Patterson. Much excitement attended its discovery. It is now being washed from the surface down by hydraulic hose. West from this, on the . opposite side of a ravine, is the “Alta Hill” lead, much richer than the “Slide,” upon which one shaft is sunk 210 feet an@ worked with profit. Northwest of the town are two other deep leads—the Lola Montez and Jenny Lind. East of the town is a deep lead known as the “Howard Hill’; the three latter cannot be worked for want Zi of water. The first brick building was built by Adams & Co., in ‘the fall of 1854, a handsome two-story building. There are now many brick buildings in the town, taking the place of the wooden ones; destroyed by the recent fire. \ B 1852, mediately north of the town, and within the corporate limits. OF DINOSAUR FOSSILS) \ DR. WALTER GRANGER* LEARNED THE SECRET OF THE DROOL Fh TOOERS in The “Grass Valley Slide” is the site of good deep diggings im RN eRe P A GIN a GUREBLL REMEDY, Me Peel QRAGON-BONE DIG The “Union ditch,’ was constructed ey business and unions upon the liberties of the individual. ‘ Like the Mayflower that was blown off its course and anchored in a strange harbor, our ship of state has. been menaced by unscrupulous men who have urged us to

i yi tt a ame Stars by Which to Guide! ‘Yesterday we Americans gathered around the festive boards to observe a day of reverent humility, -hallowed for eternity by the sacrifices of our Pilgrim forefathers. Thanksgiving day is no ordinary day—lIt is an ageless shrine for every patriot. It is the day that stands as a thundering rebuke to those who say there can be changing standards of integrity or a double standard of morality for individual and government: This day does not mark 2—Nevada City, California, Friday, November 24, 1950 305 Broad St.—Telephone-36——-_____---Published every Friday morning at Nevada City, California. : . Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Nevada City, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Member of California Newspaper Publishers Association. the beginning of the belief that freedom is, worth any sacrifice. Neither does it serve as an end to that belief. Thanksgiving day is not a day of rededication. It was KEN WRAY, Publisher Subscription: $2.60 year; $1.25 six months; 75c three. months. yf dedicated and consecrated for all time three centuries ago . another phrase. _ Like the Pilgrims we can make no re by those who died that we might walk as free men. It is rather for us the living, to borrow a phrase, to dedicaate treat from our rendezvous with destiny on the outcome of which depends the fate of our children and our chil our lives to the rekindling in the hearts of our country ° dren's children. Thanksgiving Day will stand as a monument to liberty . just so long as we in America have the courage to keep alive the principles of the Pilgrims. If we trade the precious birthright bequeathed by them to us for a mess of men the noblest flames of Pilgrim idealism on the altar of patriotism. Three centuries after the landing of the Pilgrims historians still speculate why they chose, the rock;bound New England shores, far removed from their original destina pottage from Washington, then it would crumble to dust "tion. One theory says’the captain of the Mayflower was bribed by English coloriial: interests to put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth Rock, and that on arrival at Plymouth . as a civilization sinks into the morass of failure. We must maintain the dignity-of the individual. We must fight the encroachment of bigness in government, he argued them into staying. Let us this Thanksgiving Day, join in a rededication to strengthen and straighten the main beam of our great . Ship of State so that it can sail majestically on through steer by something more modern than the true stars that the oceans of time. 5 ies Oetie e guided the Pilgrims. it serves as a monument to the failure of Communism in If we look up, we find the same true stars that guided ; ~ Scheming men have tried to bring us, like the MayAmerica? the Pilgrims to this new land. Like the Pilgrims, not all flower’s captain, into false harbors of foreign ideologies It was the dove of freedom, not the lust for money, that of us will survive in the annals of history, but that in not of our choosing. We have been endangered by cowimpelled the Pilgrims to uproot their lives from England. itself is not important. Our lives will be justified if the ardly navigators who would run with the winds of popular opinion than fight against the storm to stay on course. ‘Our Ship of State wallows in the trough of debt, buffeted by the winds of special privilege and the pressurés of vociferous minorities. It drifts perilously close to the They matched their lives against the funds raised by the principles we believe to be right and true survive. 70 merchants of England. Thanksgiving Day is a mon. We must re-kindle in our hearts the simple faith that, ument to the American way which is based on the strivsustained the Pilgrims and cherish liberty of mankind above all worldly treasures. ing for individual freedom and individual gain. Let us lift our hearts®with It was in’ Plymouth Colony, too, that Communisrn confidence to the dawn of a new glory for America. The 330 years that have elapsed since the Pilgrims Despite the threat of starvation, the share and should support the people rather than the people support share alike system couldn’t produce enough food. But stepped ashore on a stern and rock-bound ¢oast are but only enough government to govern. when Governor Bradford assigned a parcel of land to a pinpoint on the panorama of time; but it is a landmark ‘, There is no need to retell the story that everyone knows each family then. corn was raised beyond the wildest in the history of humanity. Because the record of what eee + ee they achieved here is written for eternity. —the story of that terrifying, storm tossed, miserably hopes. a es If we, this generation of Americans, can once again ‘wretched 66 day voyage of the tiny Mayflower, the heartIn the words of the Pilgrim governor, “the women now break of two return trips to England, the sickness and went willingly into the fields and took their little ones rekindle for America the fires of freedom. and a yearning misery as the mountainous seas smashed at the tiny, with them to set corn, which before would allege weakfor true liberty, then we will not have lived in vain. reef of disaster marking the belief that the government failed. ' ness and inability, whom to have compelled would have We can imagine the stark terror that swept the seasick been thought great tyranny and oppression.” 1 If we today are to be the instruments of strengthening company when they learned that the storm had cracked on was hand But—God’s the main beam of our Ship of State, we.must now re-dedbeam. main the Mayflower’s that ship. An artisan on board was bringing with him to icate our lives to those noble purposes of the Mayflower a brave new world a giant iron screw. With that deyice Compact. They are: . . To the glory of God. 2. The-ad Sargent’s Story There is more machinery at work in Grass Valley than in any equal extent of. territory in the county, if not in the state, outside of the cities. There are a number of excellent sawmills, and the lumber trade is extensive, and an excellent flouring mill, ‘but the place is probably more noted for its quartz mining than for anything else. The quartz men of Grass Valley have shown their “faith by works,” in an unwavering pertinacity of adhering to a once dubious branch of business through immense expense and apparently insurmountable difficulties. During the year 1852, owing to the water in the hills, a large expense was incurred to drain the claims; and taking the entire revenue and expenses ‘for the and the strong arms of stout hearted Pilgrims the beam vancement: of the Christian faith. 3. Frame just and of the tiny Mayflower was forced back straight into place. equal laws. 4. For the general good of all peoples.’ This We must resolve today to be instruments of strengthis a noble constitution for any nation—a charter for One ening and straightening the main beam of our Ship of World. State so that it can withstand the stresses and strains of The names of the Pilgrims are emblazoned in gold on the centuries to come. — the immortal pages of history because they had the courIt is time that we resolve to work and live by the same age to dare. The seed they bore of religious freedom and year, not a dollar was made out of the business. But 1853 gave true stars of ideals that guided the Pilgrims. They do popular government bore fruit upon the shores of a new better encouragement, and the business has been good, with little not belong only to the emblazoned pages of history. So land. We too can plant today the seed which swill bear fluctuation, ever since. 2, 1851, we had occasion to remark of Grass Valley: long as men’s hearts still burn with the belief that a man abundantly of the rich fruit of liberty and new hope for “We October think of but one place of Upper California (San Jose) which has the right to individual liberty and the right to worship generations yet unborn. will compare in pleasantness with Grass Valley. The dwellings among the trees, the gentle swelling of the hills, the beautiful. broad as he chooses, then the Pilgrim spirit still lives. successful The rock of Plymouth is the signpost of a valleys, and the air of mixed ‘primitiveness and business hustle, all Before the Pilgrims set foot.on New England, they civilization, the marker that says this was the route taken go to make up a delightful spot. first met in the crude and dingy’cabin of the Mayflower. by others who trod safely on before . . . that a successful “In -addition to all thih, heavy pulsations of the ‘many quartz It was there they laid for all time the cornerstone of all civilization found this the right way to go. The trail mills that are tirelessly laboring day and night, save on the Sabbath, give an.air of permanence and. solidity to the town unlike the’ the republican institutions of America. It was in that blazed by the Pilgrims tells us that this is the route. But many ephemeral, mine-crated towns that have arisen, prospered it also warns there can be no painless road to freedom and become deserted in California within a few years. The imtiny cabin that the first town meeting was held. provements taking place in Grass Valley are all of a solid nature: Das : It was there that the hand of \God helped the Pilgrims or security.. handsome houses are being prepared for the coming winter. There We just don’t buy freedom: We just don't get freeare many families already settled write the immortal Mayflower compact that still lights in the town, and more are comup the sky of the world with the ‘nobility of, its purpose. dom even by fighting for it. We only gain freedom by ing, and when the pleasant harmonizing influences of female society And when. the Pilgrims set! foot on Plymouth rock, they living it. It takes not only raw courage to do that-—it are more largely added to Grass Valley, the sun will not shine on ' desireable residence. knelt and gave thanks to God. takes rare courage—not the explosive type of unreasona more “The miracles that enterprise can accomplish have no. better Cynics could say “for what?” Truly it took. stout ‘ing courage, but the rarest kind—sustained courage. example than at this town. Two or three years ago the echoes of hearts to face that waste of sand hills and sea grass, briars . . These. are the days that try the souls of men, to borrow its woods*were awakened only by the wild cry of bird. and beast, the almost equally wild and degraded Indian. The riches of and swamps, wind bent trees and unknown savages. The na CALM orits ofravines e J first attracted attention, then the treasure locked up in

by . Pilgrims faced realities. . We seek out the snug harbors IT'S A FACT quartz, requiring skill and energy to obtain it. The demand created the supply, and as a result, powerful machinery is in motion, a of Utopia where we can avoid all struggle while we sniff permanent town has grown up, and the wilderness has changed s er nn Ma n ie the deadly opium that deludes us into thinking we can to a cheerful and crowded haunt of men. We have frequently weKt SVE \ ema ev get something in life for nothing. "We are content to visited the quartz mills in Grass Valley, but never without 2 neIE en \ wel l ie gaiee eeeMalel \ Saas hee dream of the living the world owes us, while we sneer at those who prize honesty and thrift. ' It was a desolate sight that greeted those Displaced Persons of three centuries ago. There were no government officials on hand to inspect or greet them. No park benches or firewood had been placed theré by a thoughtfully considerate parks department. No low cost housing project had been provided. No inspectors were on hand to demand that they work not more than 40 hours or for less than 75 cents an hour. : ‘ DouBLEHEADER BIUTIERFLYONE Lert HER SNAKES: WITH THE s a work has been going in which in rapidity of execution, grandness of result, and above all in practical usefulness, throws into the TNERYOOLZ00 héturally marked me renewed impression that, without stir or ostentation, in the midst of the mountains, and far from the theatre of former achievements, shade many which have been boasted as the trophies of centuries.” or In placer mining, Grass Valley has not been behind many other prominent localities. The present prespects are, that both quartz and placer mining will be there as permanent as elsewhere. dt has a peaceful and laborious population, and through the recent fire has entailed much individual loss, as a community, it continues to advance. The first ditch that supplied Grass Valley with water was the “Centreville,” dug in the fall and winter of 1850 by Ormsby and 0,cecCWe Cie ifs Lities There were no union orga nizers to preach that seniority was more important than others, taking the water of Wolf creek. The second was in the ability. Those D.P.’s of 1620 had to survive or perish by their fall of 1851, from the same course, by Day, Fouse & Co. “Murphy’s ditch” was dug by Murphy, O’Connor & Co.; in 185¥; the “Empire winter. Phelps & Gephart, from Little Deer creek. own efforts. And perish half of them did that first cruel But that price of freedom was not too high, for "it is to their eternal glory that none turned back for England the’ next year. . The Pilgrims came here with the same burning desire we echo today—the wish for freedom and security. But they sought the true security of real freedom—not the prison type security where independence. of action is for feited. a ditch” in 1852 by Whiting and others, hoth from Wolf Creek and They could have had that by remaining in Eng ee Thanksgiving Day is more than just a monument to the Pilgrims who crossed from the Old to the New World. It serves as a monument to the American way of life— . : its branches. 4 GON, p BY A CHINESE eis onl et 400 by The lead was discovered in the fall of* 1851, by Mathew Patterson. Much excitement attended its discovery. It is now being washed from the surface down by hydraulic hose. West from this, on the . opposite side of a ravine, is the “Alta Hill” lead, much richer than the “Slide,” upon which one shaft is sunk 210 feet an@ worked with profit. Northwest of the town are two other deep leads—the Lola Montez and Jenny Lind. East of the town is a deep lead known as the “Howard Hill’; the three latter cannot be worked for want Zi of water. The first brick building was built by Adams & Co., in ‘the fall of 1854, a handsome two-story building. There are now many brick buildings in the town, taking the place of the wooden ones; destroyed by the recent fire. \ B 1852, mediately north of the town, and within the corporate limits. OF DINOSAUR FOSSILS) \ DR. WALTER GRANGER* LEARNED THE SECRET OF THE DROOL Fh TOOERS in The “Grass Valley Slide” is the site of good deep diggings im RN eRe P A GIN a GUREBLL REMEDY, Me Peel QRAGON-BONE DIG The “Union ditch,’ was constructed ey business and unions upon the liberties of the individual. ‘ Like the Mayflower that was blown off its course and anchored in a strange harbor, our ship of state has. been menaced by unscrupulous men who have urged us to