Crossword-Solution: NORDHOFF 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 18

Charles Nordhoff, in a Utah letter to the New York Evening Post in May, 1871, said: "A friend said to me this afternoon, 'I saw a great change in Salt Lake since I was there three years ago.

Hodges, Charles Franks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team THE COMMUNISTIC SOCIETIES OF THE UNITED STATES _FROM PERSONAL VISIT AND OBSERVATION_ BY CHARLES NORDHOFF TO MY FRIENDS, DOCTOR AND MRS.

Charles Nordhoff, who followed a youth spent at sea with a long life of honorable and brilliant activity in journalism, describes the watchfulness of the fleet as he had often seen it: "The fleet is the aggregate of all the vessels engaged in the mackerel fishery.

Nordhoff, whose reminiscences of life on a fishing boat I have already quoted, describes this method of fishing and its results graphically: "At midnight, when I am called up out of my warm bed to stand an hour's watch, I find the vessel pitching uneasily, and hear the breeze blowing fretfully through the naked rigging.

Nordhoff thus set forth has been universally acknowledged as the cardinal merit of local self-government; and in addition to this cardinal merit it has been recognized by all competent students of our history that our system of self-governing States has proved itself of inestimable benefit in another way.