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If a dollar doesn't ring true, any Nevadan can detect it at once. Hypocrisy has no place in Nevada, a state where there is plenty of room for almost anything. More than a hundred thousand square miles of brilliantly colored terrain rise In chain after chain of moun-tains, with snow-cappe- d pinnacles 13,000 feet above the level of the sea. But everything and everybody in Nevada must ring as true as a silver dollar or be quickly detect-ed and properly appraised. Nevada is a big, free, unspoiled land where values are fundamental. Nevada believes in a forthright approach to divorce, gambling and drinking. Human nature Is human nature, and is seldom changed by passing a law. But there can be law and order and there is in Ne-vada without deprivation of per-sonal rights or attempt to legislate morality. Better to have license and con-trol than bootlegging and illegal gambling, says Nevada. The de-tails of a partnership dissolution concern only the persons involved. But tolerance of human foibles and mistakes Is one thing; flouting of laws or obligations is another. Ne-vada takes its government serious-ly and tolerates no dishonesty, crime or hypocrisy. That's the way It is in Nevada and Nevadans like it. Ranchers and Miners. And besides, Nevadans are more interested in prospecting, mining and ranching than they are in reg-ulating the lives and habits of oth-ers. They love ranching and herds of sheep and cattle. Town folk and ranchers alike hunt for promising rocks that show a trace of gold, or silver, or other valuable mineral They like broad highways that take them to lakes and mountains and pleasant valleys. Eating at counters and rubbing elbows with each other and visitors. Is one of their friendh habits. The "club," a social center not unlike the continental cafe, is a community institution. Those who drive rapidly through Nevada, or stop only in its clubs to drink and try their gnmhling luck, will never know the state Nevada's mountains have produced nearly two billion dollars of mineral wealth, Chiefly in gold, silver and copper. Other important minerals are lead, zinc, quicksilver, tungsten, sulphur, graphite, borax, gypsum and build-ing stone. No one can estimate its . untouched, undiscovered and unde-veloped wealth. "But Nevada is a desert!" A desert? A most productive one, then, yielding wool, cattle, sheep, horses, hogs and poultry. The live-stock industry is a big one in Ne-vada. The state's agriculture is varied, and as irrigation advances even more diversification is seen. Wheat, barley, hay, potatoes and mm mW HHHRm If. M W I Jededlah Smith passed through the region in 1826, and John C. Fremont traversed it with an exploring party a few years later. Colonized by Mormons. Brigham Young, the Mormon leader, who settled the Salt Lake basin, concluded that what is now Nevada was a part of his domain. In March, 1849, he announced the organization of the State of Deseret, which included Nevada. In that same year, N. Ambrose, Nevada's first farmer, settled near what is now Genoa. Colonization by the Mormons continued until 1857, when Young recalled them to Salt Lake City in order to mass his forces in the conflict with the federal gov-ernment. Until the discovery of the famous Comstock lode in 1859, there were only about 1,000 inhabitants in Ne-vada, chiefly Mormons and Califor-nia gold seekers who had tarried along the way. But silver and gold brought a stampede of fortune hunt ers from all over the nation. The population of Virginia City spurted from a handful of men to 30,000. Bonanzas were struck and devel-oped, and men became wealthy be-yond their dreams overnight. Foi many years the Comstock lode was the richest silver mining center in the world, and from it has come approximately one billion dollars in rrnlH nnH cilvprl VAIL M. I'lTTMAN Governor of Nevada Former lumberman, rancher anil hanker, Governor Pittman is now publisher nf the Kly Daily Times as well as the state's chief executive. He has also served as state senator and lieutenant-governo- r of Nevada. capacity to aid the war effort. Thou-sands of people came to the state to swell its 1940 population of 110,247. "We in Nevada are individual-ists," Gov. Vail Pittman told the Nevada State Cattle association at Elko last fall. "We enjoy the thrill and satisfaction, as well as the profits, which our work brings us." The democracy and hospitality of the Old West still live in Nevada. The stale's richest citizen and the lowliest cowpuncher. miner or Soon Nevada became a territory, and on October 1, 1864, President Lincoln by proclamation made Ne-vada state. Carson City, though smaller than Virginia City, was made the capital. Nicknamed the "Battle Born State," Nevada had lived through lawlessness, bicker-Ing- , Indian uprisings and political chicanery to take its place as one of the stars in Old Glory. JELF ON LAKE MEAD . . Most of the shoreline of Lake Mead, back of Boulder dam, is in Nevada. Shown in the amphibious Jeep are Lloyd Payne, Clark county clerk; J. D. Porter, Las Vegas, and Peggy Neville, Salt Lake City. many other crops are naturals. Wa-ter for irrigation comes from snow-fe- d mountain streams, from arte-sian wells, and from dug wells with pumps to raise it to the surface. Growing in Wealth, Population. As Nevadans continue the devel-opment of the natural resources, their state forges ahead. The least populous of all the states, it contrib-uted vitally to victory during the war just ended. Thousands of sol-diers, ground troops and air forces were trained on its soil and In its air. Mines and mills operated at sheepherder sit down together. Movie stars and the nation's wealth-iest who visit the state soon learn that they are not judged by their wealth or their fame. Nevada has its own standard. A gilded dollar is worth no more than any other; it's the metal inside that makes it ring true. In 1775, before the Revolutionary war, Franciscan friars crossed Ne-vada on their way to California. Fifty years later, Peter Ogden of the Hudson Bay company discov-ered the Humboldt or Ogden river. Fossils Intrigue Bright Ql1 Young Scientist -- Farmer JSfk One of 40 Talented Youth Honored With Trip JTbB To Washington; Many Ponder Careers iftO As Atomic Researchists. .dK By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. He knew what a sphygmomanom-eter wai used for; that a decigram equals 1.5432 grains; and that septicemia and anaphylaxis are dif-ferent. Besides that, he collects fos-sils enough to fill the farm kitchen at his home near Ellens-bur- Wash. That's why Jim Gibson got a free trip to Wash-ington, D. C, where he ate buffalo steak at the zoo; drank tea at the White House; gave congress a criti-cal once-ove- r; and listened to Lise Neitner, physics wizard, talk on atomic energy. Jim is one of 40 bright young high school seniors selected as finalists in the fifth annual science talent search, sponsored by Science Serv-ice of Washington, with scholarships offered by Westinghouse Electric company. Sixteen thousand scientific-- minded boys and girls, from every section of the country, took competitive examinations on such things as sphygmomanometers and decigrams; wrote essays on "My Scientific Project"; were inter-viewed by leading scientists. Three hundred of them won special recog-nition; 260 were given honorable mention; and 40 "finalists," includ- - fossils under the bed so long as they don't interfere with Jim's cooking. Yes, Jim does most of the cooking, but he's deprecatory on this score, saying his culinary exploits de-pend largely on a r. Likes Collector Of Brains Girls? Well, to appeal to Jim, they'd have to be as smart as Lise Neitner. The little gray-haire- d femi-nine scientist whose research led di-rectly to the development of the atomic bomb, impressed him most of anything or anybody he saw in Washington, with the exception of the cyclotron at the bureau of stand-ards. However, there was one girl he met at the Science Talent insti- - tute who he admitted was "interest-- ing." She collected brains. He knows all about running a farm and he keeps bees as part of his club work, but Jim Gibson isn't keen about farming as a liv- - ing. He prefers fossils. And he's casting a speculative eye on the field of nuclear physics . . as are well over half of the scientific-minde- d youngsters who came to Washington this year. Incidentally, at the same banquet, Science Service Director Watson Davis mentioned a few "firsts this fifth group of young scientists had Chalked up. They ate broiled buf-falo steak without a qualm after viewing the live variety at the Washington zoo; they prepared a "talk back" report of their opinions on the atomic energy and Kilgore bills to be submitted to congression-al committees . . and among the group was one Missourian, said Mr. Davis . . . the first Missourian, he added, who had ever gone into the White House and had not come out with a federal appointment. There is a strange paradox in con- - gress and it may cost the Demo-crats the pro-te- presidency of the senate. It's the exact reverse of the "unholy alliance" of today the coalition between the southern Democrats and the northern Repu-blicansand this is the way some of the crystal-gazer- s on Capitol Hill ex-pound it: There have been no real issues be-fore the country over which the voters could tear their hearts asun-der. But there have been some bit-ter ones within congress and among the Democrats in the senate espe-cially, which have caused incendi-ary intramural political friction. Senator McKellar, Democrat of Tennessee, has been, in the eyes of some of his more progressive col-leagues, a brake on the wheels of what they consider their progress. Senator McKellar has sturdily and steadily bucked administration legislation, not merely the Fair Employment Practices bill, but other measures which the "lib-eral" element on both sides of the aisle have supported. Nobody denies that after the next election the Re-publicans are going to get some of those 17 seats in northern and west-ern constituencies away from their Democratic opponents. They may get enough of them so the parties will be at least more evenly bal-anced even in the opinion of the more conservative prognosticators. That is half of the proposition. The other half is the growing wrath of some of the liberals on the Demo-cratic side who are very sore at McKellar for deserting the party line. It is not out of the picture that enough of these liberals will be will-ing to kick over the traces and vote for a Republican president pro-te-or at least vote against McKellar and thus produce the strange but possible phenomenon of a represent-- ative of the minority party presid-ing over the senate. This is not a prediction but it is the presentation of a paradoxi-cal possibility, granted the trend of the times becomes the course of to-morrow. The FCC must decide whether the new telephone recorder destroys the telephone's privacy. It might keep people from wasting telephone time, and think of all the things you wouldn't say if you knew they were going to be on the record! For one thing, it might make people more sympathetic toward radio commen-tators. James Gibson ing Jim Gibson, came to Washing-- ton, D. C, to attend the Science Tal-ent institute. I met Jim at the banquet which wound up the hectic weekend of interviews and sightseeing tours, and asked him how he'd hap-pened to start collecting fossils in-stead of stamps, birds' eggs, or matchbox covers. Jim, a ruddy, rumpled, serge-suite- d farm boy, scoffed at stamps as "dull." Fos-sils aren't. One Fossil 20,000 Years Old Why, just this year, he was nos-ing around some cliffs in his part of the state of Washington, and he came upon an interesting rock. That is, it would look like a rock to you and me. Jim saw something em-bedded in it. Maybe a bone. He and his fossil-minde- d companion hacked out the rock, and with considerable effort, lugged it into their car. It weighed 120 pounds. At home, Jim "liberated" what he had seen em-bedded in the rock. A small piece of wood. He took it to a scientific professor friend of his, and learned that what he had found was a 20,000-year-ol- d fossil. Jim was as excited as if somebody had present-ed him with a brand-ne- 1946 model automobile. The serious, brown-eye- d young-ster tosses decades and centuries around with great ease. Over the mushroom soup, he dug around in his crowded pockets and produced an g object. "See this?" he asked. "Urn," I said. Another piece of rock. "It's a shark's tooth," Jim ex-plained. "It's eight million years old. Dr. Foshag of the Smithson-ian Institution gave it to me." I hurriedly rolled the conversa-tional ball back to 1946. "What does your family think of your fossils." I wanted to know. Well, it turns out that Jim, and his father, a dairy farmer, "batch It." Mr. Gibson has no objections to Hydraulic Presses J Eiffel Tower PertJ The Eiffel tower in jf lieved to be the only s!9 the world which coil manent machinery to J sinking condition, says 9 When building it, EiJ 16 hydraulic presses, ,M of the four foundation each "leg," with which! er, in case it ever rjjfl brought back to the M Oil toihsL TisxL SUPERINTENDENT of schools A visited a night-scho- for Negro adults. He was called upon to con-gratulate an old Negress. She had enrolled at the start of the course with a single, avowed intent to learn to write her name. She had succeeded, and the course was at an end, and she was leaving. The next year the superintendent visited the same school. The old woman had enrolled again. "Whv?" he asked her. "Ah's goin' to learn to write mah name." she said. "But you learned that last year." "Ah knows dat. But now Ah gone got married." Famous Lode Not Named for Finder The Comstock lode at Virginia City was named for Henry Com stock, a man who did not discov er it, and who would have been too lazy to work It if he had! In June, 1859, Peter O' Riley and Patrick McLaughlin discovered a rich lode, though neither one real-ized how valuable it was at the time. Old Henry Comstock was prowling around as usual, watch-ing others work, and immediately laid claim to the spot himself, insisting that he had already tak-en up claims there. The two Irishmen, however, were unimpressed. Comstock went away to find help and re-turned the next day with Manny Penrod, who cheerfully backed up Comstock's story. Pete and Pat probably knew the two claimants were liars, but the site was lonely and they didn't want to go to court. They agreed to give Com-stock and Penrod equal shares in the discovery. But there was plenty of silver and gold for all of them! B A R BS . . . by Baukhage What use is a ceiling on butter when cream can rise as high as it wants to? Naturally it will seek reversing gravity the highest lev-els, including ice cream. The black market in America ap-pears about as easy to handle as the bootlegger of prohibition days . . and the bootlegger is waiting in the wings too i USO Pres. Lindsay Kimball says Americans move from vast enthusi-asm to complete indifference. That's certainly true. Remember monopoly, Coue, mah-jon- minia-ture golf? Practically every woman m America is pursuing polyamide products, these days. Polyamide is what nylon stockings are made of NEVADA'S ARTESIAN WELLS The artesian well, shown at the right, is located near Gerlach. Such wells are being used to provide water for irrigation and livestock. This particular one, however, is a part of a frog farm. More and more wells are being drilled and dug in Nevada for irrigation and other purposes. Most of the irrigation water, however, comes from mountain streams, fed by heavy snows far above the valleys. |