October 7, 1949 (8 pages)

' of democracy, including freedom of speech. ¥ Cs 4 — Nevada City Nugget, Friday, October 7, 1949 305 Broad Street, Nevada City—Telephone 36 A legal newspaper, as defined by statute ROBERT H. and DONALD W. WRAY, Publishers KENNETH W. WRAY, Editor and Advertising Manager Member California Newspaper Publishers Association Published every Friday at Nevada City, California, and entered as as matter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevada City under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES . One year outside: county (in advance) <2. cose ccchceeec cece $3.00 One year in county (in advance). 22.0.-2:ccccccssecc. 2.50 Wour montis GN advance) ea ee 1.00 Wane month Gn advance) 2220, .30 SUPERVISORS PROCEEDINGS The board of supervisors Monday afternoon turned what is supposed to be an august and dignified session of administering the county business under the constitution of the state of California and the laws of its legislature, into a filthy-languaged and vituperative attack on the editor of The Nugget for his temerity in criticizing the board for its dereliction of duty in its failure to comply with the law of the state requiring the county boards of supervisors to make known by legal publication their activities. Why should any member of Nevada county's board of . supervisors fear the legal publication of the proceedings of the board of supervisors as provided for under the constitutional laws of the state of California? v Is the Nevada county board of supervisors member _ who shouts out against such publication arrogant enough to believe that his ideas and his opinions are above those of the laws of the California state legislature and the constitution of the state of California? > If there is nothing to hide in the actions of the Nevada county board of supervisors why should not those proceedings be published in a newspaper of general circulation published within the confines of Nevada county so that all may read just what does go on at meetings of the board of supervisors? There has been a great deal of talk bandied about by certain members of the board of supervisors about trying to save Nevada county taxpayers money.’ The principle behind the required publication of governing bodies activities is the principle recognized by the founding fathers of the nation that the glare of publicity is oné of the greatest checks to abuse by government. Only in secret meetings and censored press and speech can graft and dictatorship prosper. 2 . « Why does not the same effort of economy so strongly professed by the board apply to roads, road cleaning in heavy snow seasons, letting of contracts; and in fact to all dealings in which the taxpayers of Nevada county have fo pay the bill? . p One member of the board of supervisors, apparently chagrined because the California constitution and various laws adopted by the state legislature are beyond his dictatorial control, said, ““A LITTLE OF THIS ---DOESN’T GO A LONG WAY WITH ME_ I WON'T TAKE MUCH MORE OF THIS. I'LL DO SOMETHING PERSONALLY.” ¥ One cannot help but wonder if Carl J. Tobiassen, who made this amazing statement, has forgotten that supposedly this is a FREE and DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY. Or can it be that he thinks that, like Huey Long, and perhaps a paperhanger of late notoriety, he can rule Nevada county with an iron fist? : When a man in political life, who has been proven wrong under the very laws he has sworn to uphold, resorts to threats to do something personal we cannot help but wonder if he should not be quickly retired to a position where he can no longer threaten the free principles In fact, it has been said, ‘‘such retirement might make a lot of people think twice before they utter what might be termed thoughtless statements that possibly could be construed as personal threats against life and liberty.” P By the board's amazing action of hiding its activities for years by failing to comply.with the law of the state and publish its proceedings and then screaming foulmouthed condemnation of. a citizen for exericsing his constitutional right of freedom of speech and freedom of press, it causes us to wonder if there aren't more serious derelictions of duty by the board in its administering of county government. After all the cost of publishing supervisors proceedings is a very very minor item in the expenditures of a county government. THE SHORT CUT NEVER LEADS BACK One of the most powerful arguments against the proposed Columbia valley administration was made, before congressional committees, by Governor Douglas McKay of Oregon. In part, he said, ‘Proponents of a CVA, and especially those who are on the government payroll, are very impatient with the processes of representative government. They dislike having to come to congress with their requests for money . . . They seem unwilling to sit down around the table, like ordinary citizens, and work out differences of opinion about their plans and programs. In brief, they don’t act half as interested in trying to make our present system of resource development work better as they are in setting up an entirely new system which they, and they alone, will control. . “There is rio short and ‘easy method of self-government 3. THE END OF A GOOD MAL Just Wonderin’ ] Wonder what's the matter With the advertising game;, It used to be quite circumspect, But now it’s not the same. It used to be a serious thing Of buying and of selling, But now it’s kindergarten stuff Of silly songs and yelling. Seated one day at the radio, . heard a businessman ask, in all seriousness, ““What is the matter with modern advertising?’’ He made no attempt to answer his own $64 question and no other voice was raised in explanation. Were I to make an attempt at answering that query, I'd say just off hand, too much kindergarten stuff; too much singing of silly.songs, too much anndying incidental music, too much protesting overly much and above all too many superlatives. Radio advertisers all seem to be in their second childhood and by the same token they seem to think that the general buying public is in the same condition. A song ad, repeated every day for even one year grows intensely monotonous; finally it becomes annoying to the listener and after a while it ceases to have any lure for those who are in the market for the goods it is supposed to sell . No sane salesman would come to your door and greet you with a singing ad, if he did you'd judge him to be crazy and promptly shut the door in his face; no sane salesman would enter your home and begin yelling at the top of his voice, if he did you'd call the police patrol. Still the stuff we hear on our radios is supposed to influence the home buyer, the home maker and ‘induce her to rush right out and purchase the product advertised. In the matter of superlatives, the national advertiser outdoes Hollywood in every direction; everything is est; the purest, the btightest, the cheapest. For instance we are told that a,certain soap product will make our clothes brighter, whiter and more sparkling than any other soap ever compounded; but almost immediately we are told the self same things about another brand of soap and so on ad infinitum. Now if these ads were true one could start with product number one, follow it by number two and so on through the list of very best soaps and at the end one would be obliged to wear sun glasses when ironing those radiantly sparkling clothes, or they would become so impeccably white and clean that no one could see them at all. Newspaper advertising seems to be running along in its old reasonable manner; but alas, radio advertisers speak, sing and try to allure buyers by treating them like small children, who must be sung asleep before they.are in a mood to buy. Yes, we buyers of soap, ‘cigarettes, minds and, of course, we can't be reasoned with, or influenced by grown up arguments or explanations, so they sing to us, Mother Goose us into a buying mood and bethump us with superlatives which they are sure we do not understand, but which will induce us to buy, just to see what all the ballyhoo is about. I Wonder how many other people sit by the radio, as I do, and turn the dial just as soon as a crooner begins crooning the remarkable and eternally superlative qualities of the thing he has to sell. ; That is one of the fine things about radio, one doesn’t have to listen to what it emits, unless one wishes to. ADELINE MERRIAM CONNER. : . : ‘Tales of Nevada County : ‘} unit. and other products are just infants with ten year old away from the winding path of democracy has wound up with state socialism and dictatorship. “The short cut never leads back to the trail!” And, in every case, ‘‘authority’’ schemes propose to achieve their ends through the imposition of super-governments, completely free of ordinary restraints. Their administrators. would ‘not ‘pay ‘the ‘slightest attention to the wishes of the people. ‘Local government and elected officials would be equally powerless. If anyone thinks under such a system, he should think again. This is the “Every nation ‘that has attempted to take short cuts’ that true representative government could long survive, method by which liberty has been ‘destroyed and dissent’ crushed ‘throughout half the supposedly civilized world. 7 From Long Ago to Now H .P. DAVIS . THE PEOPLE OF NEVADA COUNTY In this column recently we briefly reviewed and analyzed the Great Register of Nevada County for the year 1875, a copy of which is now on exhibit in The Nugget window. ae We noted that of the total number of! registered voters in this county in 1875, about nineteen percent claimed Nevada City as their place of residence. In default of a more comprehensive analysis which will be undertaken later this writer accepts the voters of Nevada City as’a fair cross section of the population of this county in 1875, '. 25 years after the creation of this county as a political In this previous column we stated that of the 1,351 men registered as residents in Nevada City, 768, about 57 percent, claimed the United States as their native county and 583, about 43 percent, hailed from foreign countries. . ; Thirty-one of the then 33 states of the ynion were here represented and this list of the electors of foreign birth in the year 1875 included representatives of no less than 35 foreign states or colonies. Although, as has been stated, 31 of the then 33 states of the union were here in this.town represented by men who had reached their majority, a great number of the Americans came here from the middle Atlantic and New England states in about equal proportions. The southern states contributed only about eight percent of the total. The following figures, which will later be more fully analyzed, are of interest as a basis for further investigation. From New York came 137 men, Maine 96, Ohio 83, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania each 52, Tlinois 36, Kentucky 30, Virginia 28, Missouri 25, lowa 23, New Hampshire 22, Michigan 21, Maryland and Indiana 20 each, Vermont 19, Tennessee 18, Connecticut 15, Rhode Island and New Jersey each 14, North Carolina and Louisiana 7 each, Arkansas 5, Alabama and Wisconsin each 3, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and the District of Columbia, two each, and one each from Delaware and Nevada. Texas and Minnesota were the only states of the union not here represented. Of the 583 foreign born registered from 36 countries or states, 349 were from Great Britain or British colonies, England 149, Ireland 126, Scotland 31, Wales 17, Canrai New Brunswick 14, Nova Scotia 7, New South ales . . Registered as from Germanic countries or states were 87. From Germany 33, Prussia 26, Bavaria 6, Austria 6, Wurtenberg 4, Hanover 3, Holstein 2, Hesse-Cassel 2, Baden 2, Saxony 2, and Brunswick . From the latin countries and colonies 86 were registered. France 22, Portugal 22, Belgium 15, Italy 16 the Azores 8, Madeira 3, Spain . . From the Scandinavian countries were 27. Sweden 12, Norway 8, Denmark 7. From the Slavonic countries two were from Russia and one from Poland. Seventeen were registered as natives of Switzerland and only one claimed Africa as his birthplace. Although California that year celebrated its 25th birthday only six men of voting age were here registered as Californians and four of these had just that year reached their majority. It would be interesting to know how many of the present residents of Nevada City township trace their ancestry to these pioneers who registered here in 1875, The Nugget subscribes to Mr. Davis’ above suggestion and will-gladly cooperate with him and with the descendants of the men of 1875, whose names were included in the Great Register of that year, in tracing and recording such ancestry. Propaganda is baloney dressed up as food for thought. COs RO MCRBON Me eon. ‘fsa HOW” vers Ue Japan. Buy your'new or used car from your local Zmaalax dealer. You can recog‘nize him-by the famous Zimaalar ‘emblem ‘displayed ‘in-‘his ‘window or show‘room. And when you buy, always sign the familiar green Zimaolas ‘contract, Bank of America NATIONAL JiVS1/3-ASSOGIATION MEMBER'F:D.'1.C. \¢

' of democracy, including freedom of speech. ¥ Cs 4 — Nevada City Nugget, Friday, October 7, 1949 305 Broad Street, Nevada City—Telephone 36 A legal newspaper, as defined by statute ROBERT H. and DONALD W. WRAY, Publishers KENNETH W. WRAY, Editor and Advertising Manager Member California Newspaper Publishers Association Published every Friday at Nevada City, California, and entered as as matter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevada City under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES . One year outside: county (in advance) <2.. cose ccchceeec cece $3.00 One year in county (in advance). 22.0..-2:ccccccssecc. 2.50 Wour montis GN advance) ea ee 1.00 Wane month Gn advance) 2220, .30 SUPERVISORS PROCEEDINGS The board of supervisors Monday afternoon turned what is supposed to be an august and dignified session of administering the county business under the constitution of the state of California and the laws of its legislature, into a filthy-languaged and vituperative attack on the editor of The Nugget for his temerity in criticizing the board for its dereliction of duty in its failure to comply with the law of the state requiring the county boards of supervisors to make known by legal publication their activities. Why should any member of Nevada county's board of . supervisors fear the legal publication of the proceedings of the board of supervisors as provided for under the constitutional laws of the state of California? v Is the Nevada county board of supervisors member _ who shouts out against such publication arrogant enough to believe that his ideas and his opinions are above those of the laws of the California state legislature and the constitution of the state of California? > If there is nothing to hide in the actions of the Nevada county board of supervisors why should not those proceedings be published in a newspaper of general circulation published within the confines of Nevada county so that all may read just what does go on at meetings of the board of supervisors? There has been a great deal of talk bandied about by certain members of the board of supervisors about trying to save Nevada county taxpayers money.’ The principle behind the required publication of governing bodies activities is the principle recognized by the founding fathers of the nation that the glare of publicity is oné of the greatest checks to abuse by government. Only in secret meetings and censored press and speech can graft and dictatorship prosper. 2 . « Why does not the same effort of economy so strongly professed by the board apply to roads, road cleaning in heavy snow seasons, letting of contracts; and in fact to all dealings in which the taxpayers of Nevada county have fo pay the bill? . p One member of the board of supervisors, apparently chagrined because the California constitution and various laws adopted by the state legislature are beyond his dictatorial control, said, ““A LITTLE OF THIS ---DOESN’T GO A LONG WAY WITH ME_ I WON'T TAKE MUCH MORE OF THIS. I'LL DO SOMETHING PERSONALLY.” ¥ One cannot help but wonder if Carl J. Tobiassen, who made this amazing statement, has forgotten that supposedly this is a FREE and DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY. Or can it be that he thinks that, like Huey Long, and perhaps a paperhanger of late notoriety, he can rule Nevada county with an iron fist? : When a man in political life, who has been proven wrong under the very laws he has sworn to uphold, resorts to threats to do something personal we cannot help but wonder if he should not be quickly retired to a position where he can no longer threaten the free principles In fact, it has been said, ‘‘such retirement might make a lot of people think twice before they utter what might be termed thoughtless statements that possibly could be construed as personal threats against life and liberty.” P By the board's amazing action of hiding its activities for years by failing to comply.with the law of the state and publish its proceedings and then screaming foulmouthed condemnation of. a citizen for exericsing his constitutional right of freedom of speech and freedom of press, it causes us to wonder if there aren't more serious derelictions of duty by the board in its administering of county government. After all the cost of publishing supervisors proceedings is a very very minor item in the expenditures of a county government. THE SHORT CUT NEVER LEADS BACK One of the most powerful arguments against the proposed Columbia valley administration was made, before congressional committees, by Governor Douglas McKay of Oregon. In part, he said, ‘Proponents of a CVA, and especially those who are on the government payroll, are very impatient with the processes of representative government. They dislike having to come to congress with their requests for money . . . They seem unwilling to sit down around the table, like ordinary citizens, and work out differences of opinion about their plans and programs. In brief, they don’t act half as interested in trying to make our present system of resource development work better as they are in setting up an entirely new system which they, and they alone, will control. . “There is rio short and ‘easy method of self-government 3. THE END OF A GOOD MAL Just Wonderin’ ] Wonder what's the matter With the advertising game;, It used to be quite circumspect, But now it’s not the same. It used to be a serious thing Of buying and of selling, But now it’s kindergarten stuff Of silly songs and yelling. Seated one day at the radio, . heard a businessman ask, in all seriousness, ““What is the matter with modern advertising?’’ He made no attempt to answer his own $64 question and no other voice was raised in explanation. Were I to make an attempt at answering that query, I'd say just off hand, too much kindergarten stuff; too much singing of silly.songs, too much anndying incidental music, too much protesting overly much and above all too many superlatives. Radio advertisers all seem to be in their second childhood and by the same token they seem to think that the general buying public is in the same condition. A song ad, repeated every day for even one year grows intensely monotonous; finally it becomes annoying to the listener and after a while it ceases to have any lure for those who are in the market for the goods it is supposed to sell . No sane salesman would come to your door and greet you with a singing ad, if he did you'd judge him to be crazy and promptly shut the door in his face; no sane salesman would enter your home and begin yelling at the top of his voice, if he did you'd call the police patrol. Still the stuff we hear on our radios is supposed to influence the home buyer, the home maker and ‘induce her to rush right out and purchase the product advertised. In the matter of superlatives, the national advertiser outdoes Hollywood in every direction; everything is est;

the purest, the btightest, the cheapest. For instance we are told that a,certain soap product will make our clothes brighter, whiter and more sparkling than any other soap ever compounded; but almost immediately we are told the self same things about another brand of soap and so on ad infinitum. Now if these ads were true one could start with product number one, follow it by number two and so on through the list of very best soaps and at the end one would be obliged to wear sun glasses when ironing those radiantly sparkling clothes, or they would become so impeccably white and clean that no one could see them at all. Newspaper advertising seems to be running along in its old reasonable manner; but alas, radio advertisers speak, sing and try to allure buyers by treating them like small children, who must be sung asleep before they.are in a mood to buy. Yes, we buyers of soap, ‘cigarettes, minds and, of course, we can't be reasoned with, or influenced by grown up arguments or explanations, so they sing to us, Mother Goose us into a buying mood and bethump us with superlatives which they are sure we do not understand, but which will induce us to buy, just to see what all the ballyhoo is about. I Wonder how many other people sit by the radio, as I do, and turn the dial just as soon as a crooner begins crooning the remarkable and eternally superlative qualities of the thing he has to sell. ; That is one of the fine things about radio, one doesn’t have to listen to what it emits, unless one wishes to. ADELINE MERRIAM CONNER. : . : ‘Tales of Nevada County : ‘} unit. and other products are just infants with ten year old away from the winding path of democracy has wound up with state socialism and dictatorship. “The short cut never leads back to the trail!” And, in every case, ‘‘authority’’ schemes propose to achieve their ends through the imposition of super-governments, completely free of ordinary restraints. Their administrators. would ‘not ‘pay ‘the ‘slightest attention to the wishes of the people. ‘Local government and elected officials would be equally powerless. If anyone thinks under such a system, he should think again. This is the “Every nation ‘that has attempted to take short cuts’ that true representative government could long survive, method by which liberty has been ‘destroyed and dissent’ crushed ‘throughout half the supposedly civilized world. 7 From Long Ago to Now H .P. DAVIS . THE PEOPLE OF NEVADA COUNTY In this column recently we briefly reviewed and analyzed the Great Register of Nevada County for the year 1875, a copy of which is now on exhibit in The Nugget window. ae We noted that of the total number of! registered voters in this county in 1875, about nineteen percent claimed Nevada City as their place of residence. In default of a more comprehensive analysis which will be undertaken later this writer accepts the voters of Nevada City as’a fair cross section of the population of this county in 1875, '. 25 years after the creation of this county as a political In this previous column we stated that of the 1,351 men registered as residents in Nevada City, 768, about 57 percent, claimed the United States as their native county and 583, about 43 percent, hailed from foreign countries. . ; Thirty-one of the then 33 states of the ynion were here represented and this list of the electors of foreign birth in the year 1875 included representatives of no less than 35 foreign states or colonies. Although, as has been stated, 31 of the then 33 states of the union were here in this.town represented by men who had reached their majority, a great number of the Americans came here from the middle Atlantic and New England states in about equal proportions. The southern states contributed only about eight percent of the total. The following figures, which will later be more fully analyzed, are of interest as a basis for further investigation. From New York came 137 men, Maine 96, Ohio 83, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania each 52, Tlinois 36, Kentucky 30, Virginia 28, Missouri 25, lowa 23, New Hampshire 22, Michigan 21, Maryland and Indiana 20 each, Vermont 19, Tennessee 18, Connecticut 15, Rhode Island and New Jersey each 14, North Carolina and Louisiana 7 each, Arkansas 5, Alabama and Wisconsin each 3, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and the District of Columbia, two each, and one each from Delaware and Nevada. Texas and Minnesota were the only states of the union not here represented. Of the 583 foreign born registered from 36 countries or states, 349 were from Great Britain or British colonies, England 149, Ireland 126, Scotland 31, Wales 17, Canrai New Brunswick 14, Nova Scotia 7, New South ales . . Registered as from Germanic countries or states were 87. From Germany 33, Prussia 26, Bavaria 6, Austria 6, Wurtenberg 4, Hanover 3, Holstein 2, Hesse-Cassel 2, Baden 2, Saxony 2, and Brunswick . From the latin countries and colonies 86 were registered. France 22, Portugal 22, Belgium 15, Italy 16 the Azores 8, Madeira 3, Spain . . From the Scandinavian countries were 27. Sweden 12, Norway 8, Denmark 7. From the Slavonic countries two were from Russia and one from Poland. Seventeen were registered as natives of Switzerland and only one claimed Africa as his birthplace. Although California that year celebrated its 25th birthday only six men of voting age were here registered as Californians and four of these had just that year reached their majority. It would be interesting to know how many of the present residents of Nevada City township trace their ancestry to these pioneers who registered here in 1875, The Nugget subscribes to Mr. Davis’ above suggestion and will-gladly cooperate with him and with the descendants of the men of 1875, whose names were included in the Great Register of that year, in tracing and recording such ancestry. Propaganda is baloney dressed up as food for thought. COs RO MCRBON Me eon. ‘fsa HOW” vers Ue Japan. Buy your'new or used car from your local Zmaalax dealer. You can recog‘nize him-by the famous Zimaalar ‘emblem ‘displayed ‘in-‘his ‘window or show‘room. And when you buy, always sign the familiar green Zimaolas ‘contract, Bank of America NATIONAL JiVS1/3-ASSOGIATION MEMBER'F:D.'1.C. \¢