The Gavelyte, January 1912

CE DAR \ ' lLLE COLL EG I:'.: 2-J4 course there a re other min es that are paying bu t t hat is the great est one. It ownes th e mountain that gave the town th e name it b ears. This mountain lifts ahout seven hundred and fifty feet above th e urrounding country . All its raise is in a quarter of a mile. Of cou rs e these figures may not be correct but it is quite a p it ch, 45 degrees. A friend uf mine went up and down it one day, fl,r a prize, in twe lv e minutes and tliirty five econd s . That was the record for the climb and has con tinu ed tu be for five years. This i a union camp; ev en th e schoo l teacher belongi ng . He is th e on ly one uf his kind here but he carries a red card. lt is al o a Socialist camp, every one, nearly, being a red man and glad to be calleJ a "Dynamiter.' The pre ent case in Los Angeles is taking a great deal uf attention. The school here was in a ~ad wa y fo r discipline The school boa rd hired me; wanting me to make the schola rs "Sit up and take notice," as they said. Well they are . They are nwt bad children l,ut allowed to run wild, a s you wou ld say. l tuok a buy tu t as k for a li ttl e tdlk that l said was not to be all owed. Talked to him in a fathe r ly tone o f vu1ce awhile aud then said: "Suppose that l ~1wul<l hear your sister saying the ,,urds th<lt l heard you saying-suppose tl1at you shrrnld hear her-what would yt1u du·:" He studied awhile and as l wa s 11,,ping that he was making preparation to ask my pard1,n. imagine my surprise when he said: "Tell her to go to it, I gue. s." l nearly lost the d igni ty that a teacher i supposed to have. Every place that l go, it seems that I get iuto a band just organizing or that wants a teacher and wants me to take the place. Here, shortly after they heard tliat I played a little, they wanted 111e to go to tlie band meeting . After a a m101ng ca mp, a ma n is a man as long as he carries himself a s a man should. He can drink, but not get drunk, he can smoke as long a s he smokes alone, be can dance if he chooses, he can do any– thing but try to find out anyone elses business . 111 't that all right? Each man in Nevada seems to think that any thing th a t he finds in. o r on, the ground is his . That is, if the boss is but a little way from him. As a fellow told me "There is not an honest man, woman or child in Nevada. " l think that he is wrong however. Th e re is nothing around but sand and sage bushes . It is queer how much pro– duce that they ca n raise on the sand if they can only ge t the wat e r on it. Here is a place where a little water goes a long ways . There is not a rive r fl owing from th e state of Nevada. It seems that Nature is av ing what little water she can raise to thi s elevation for her own use. We a re over a mile higher than you at Cedarville. There are two small streams near here that go down to the dese rt and th ere are lost in a big alkali lake. The enti re state has not the population of Dayton, th e re being only 81,000 a t the last ·census, so I was to ld today a t the Admission exercises . Well 1 see that I must stop. Can't t ell wh ere th e ne xt letter will come from. Till l. cha nge my adclress I am, R e pec tfully yonrs, E . G. SPAHR. Th e Alumni A soc iation met in Carnegie Hall. December 28, for the purpose of nominating an alumnus to present to th e board o f trustees of the college as our member of that boa rd. Mr. Jos. A. Finney rece ived the honor of the nomination. short time I was elected president. ln SUBSCH.lBE FOR THE GAVELYTE