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PAGE FOUR
Nevada City Nugget
305 Broad Street. Phone 36.
A Legal Newspaper, as defined by statute. Printed and Published
at Nevada City.
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To’ Regulate The Regulators f
(From the New York World.Telegram)
Coming soon for Congressional showdown is a measure
as fundamental as any in our time. Fundamental, because it
deals with the basic proposition of wether ours shall be a government by law or by men.
The problem, though settled in the earlier and simpler
days of our democracy, has grown as the complexities of
modern life have grown. It is the problem of bureaucracy—
of power delegated by lawmakers to boards and commissions
—of the trend inherent in bureaucracy toward seizure of
more ard more nower—toward combining within the bureaucratic function the authority of prosecutor. jury and iudge—_
and thereby toward breaking down the vital concépt of checks:
and balances upon which our system was founded. .
The measure would set up a method of review
would slow down the racing engine that is bureaucracy. It is!
the Logan-Walter bill. .
The pressure for expansion of bureaucratic power is.
nothine new and rothine unnatural. It reflects a perfectly ,
human impulse. The tendency will never restrain itself. It:
must be checked hv that body in which the original respon.
sibility for law-making is reposed. That body is Congress. And,
that.
that is why the Logan-Walter bill, with an airing of the whole:
great subject, is so important.
oo
. ‘The great men who sat down together and conceived the
Constitution of the United States had a considerable distrust
for foreign methods of doing things. They distrusted despotism, tyranny, and arbitrary authority. They showed their attitude again and again in the simple, forthright phrasing of
the Constitution itself. There is no passage that shows. their,
attitude better than the simple phrase which reads: ‘‘No title
of nobility shall be granted by the United States.”
Americans, as a result, are accustomed to living under a
system of representative democracy, wherein individual rights
are respected and freedoms are zealously guarded. Sometimes lately, however, there have been those in Washington who
appeared contemptuous of these beliefs:
Take the National Labor Relations Board, for example.
The evidence continues to pile up that this board considers itself.an exception to most traditional American rules; that it
fancies itself in the role usually assigned to foreien despots.
Like the official in the well-known Gilbert and Sullivan mus.
ical comedy, ‘“The Mikado,” it plavs many roles; Judge, fury,
Attorney, and even Executioner. That same official, Poo Bah
by name, even came to invent one final eitle for himself—
“Lord High Everything Else’’—and the moye one watches the
actions of the board, the more it seems to be reaching out for
that job, too.
Americans are not accustomed to an attitude like this on
_ the part of government-officials. And_if the-Wasner-Boardever pauses to ask itself why public opinion is so strongly
against its arbitrary actions, it is sure to find its answer in the.
fact that it has chosen to govern by caprice and with a sense
of its own dictatorial power, rather than heeding the ideals
formulated by a great French philosopher in the following
stirrine words:
“A free people obeys, but does not serve: it has leaders
but not masters; it obeys the laws but only the laws. In brief,
liberty always follows the fate of laws; she rules and perishes
with them.”
STIDENTS WHO .
ARE ABSENT ADD.
TO TAX BURDEN
Occasionally one hears the term
“A. D. A.” referred to in connection
with the public schools, but few no
doubt realize the meaning of the
term in dollars and cents value to a
school district. A. D, A. is an abbrev.
ported by the state sales tax, would
bring to each high school district
the sum of $87.24 per A. D. A.; that
is, on the basis of 336 pupils in average daily attendance at the Nevada City high school last year a
‘sum of $20,588.64 was made available for use by the Nevada City high
school district in operating its school.
In addition to this amount, a sum
of $3200 is received for maintaining
four years of high school work. The
balance of the amount needed to operate the school comes, of course, as
a result of local taxation.
The facts
Just ~Wonpgr-IN’
I wonder at the lessons taught
By ocean tides that ebb and flow,
Like them the tides of joy and peace
Shall rise triumphantly, we know;
And so we keep our steadfast faith
And harbor no such word as, “‘fail,”’
Against the ebbing waves of wrath,
The tides of justice shall prevail.
. I. wonder how much longer the devastating waves of
. human hate and wrath will continue to bring sorrow, pain and
death to this tortured world; though lashed to fury by-every
evil wind that blows, they must at length subside, their forces
. spent, their powers no longer potent. Slowly, perhaps, the
. bitter waves will ebb away, but sometime the sunlit tide of
‘good will and peace will come surging in—sometime human‘ity will rejoice in the dawning light of a new and far, far bet_ter day.
. I wonder what will happen when those who have been
. hypnotized by the roaring bombast of mad leaders, wake up
and begin asking questions. The expedient of waging wars of
aggression, has always been and still is a favorite one with war
lords. It serves their purpose for a time; keeps the home folk
interested, even fascinated; but ultimately, some one or a
group of some ones does a bit‘of personal thinking, becomes
curious—and troublesome; then the purge is invoked, but the
heresy usually spreads and no tyrant can purge the entire citizenry of any land or nation. :
Were . a follower of certain totalitarian leaders—and beginning to use my mind, here are a few thoughts which might
arise in me: “‘this regime isn’t working out as I was led to believe it would; we have abolished capitalism, but militarism
. has taken its place and the burden upon the common people
grows heavier day by day; we were promised peace, happiness and the fat of the land, but we are getting war, sorrow
. and deprivation; I’m tired of wearing black shirts and eating
. black bread, tired of goose-stepping—but right there, I'd stop
. thinking for the day and step into a cafe for a bite of coarse
bread and a sip of weak, black coffee.
I wonder if the inspired wisdom of poets is always to be
. trusted: there is, for in instance, a poem written by Kipling
in which he declares, “the female of the species is more deadly than the male; ‘‘now is that statement true or otherwise?
A quiet, orderly gentleman sallied forth one day to seek
for concrete evidence among domestic fowls and beasts. He
came home looking as though he had been mauled by a dinasauer. and told a story of having been chased by an infuriated
bull. horrified by the conflict between two barnyard roosters,
berated by a turkey gobbler, hissed by a gander, knocked
Nero, scratched by a tom-cat and served a convincing uppercut by an irate farmer the sanctity of whose fences he had disdown by a billy-goat, butted by a ram, bitten by a dog named!
ELLA M. AUSTIN
EXHIBITS SERIES
OF PAINTINGS
The beautiful collection of oil
paintings by Mrs. Ella M. Austin,
former county superintendent of
schools, is on display in the drawing
room of the National Hotel this
week. They were first hung. for the
court house group on Tuesday when
a luncheon was enjoyed by the party.
Mrs. Austin was persuaded to leave
the paintings on display that the
Business and Professional Woman’s
Club might view them Wednesday
evening. Yesterday the Rotary Club
members viewed the paintings when
they gathered for dinner. ;
The group comprises California
scenes. ‘‘Forest Fire’’ seems to attract most attention, although every
one is of interest. The pictures are:
“Forest Fire,’ ‘‘Yosemite Valley,”
‘Wild Grape Vines’’, this one being
painted on her’ brother in _ law’s
farm, A. Anderson at Spenceville,
west of Nevada City; two of ‘‘California Poppies,’ ‘Arm of Green
Bay;’’ “Coast near Capistrano;’’ ‘‘On
‘Merced River;’’ ‘Spring Time;”’
“Spring Time in the Coast Range;”’
and ‘‘Autumn Trees.’’ “‘Spring Time
in ‘the Coast Range’’ was painted two
months ago and is a little gem of
beauty and color. ‘‘Autumn Trees”
was painted in January and Mrs.
Austin painted the view’ of Sugar
Loaf mountain north of Nevada City
catching the true color of red leaved maples and yellow Lombardy poplars. Both trees were brought to
Nevada City by early day pioneers
and are one of the delights about the
city in autumn.
Mrs. Austin is a native of Nevada
county and spent much of her life in
the Spenceville district where she
still owns a farm and home, although
she has lived at the National Hotel
twenty years. She held the office of
county superintendent of schools in
Nevadacounty-many~ years. This
highly esteemed pioneer who has a
hobby of painting beautiful subjects
of nature, finds much satisfaction in
her art, both in doing it, and in the
Pleasure it gives those who view it.
Mrs. Ronald Barnes and son, Barry, of Berkeley are making a two
week’s visit with Mrs. Barnes’ fathLate
studio upright piano, almost new
to be sold here in Nevada City at
PIANO FOR SALE: model
big savings. Terms $6 monthly
handles. For particulars write to
G. Nichols, Adjuster, 301 Market
St., San Francisco. Calif.
4-263te
SIERRA BEGONIA GARDENS—126
Orchard St., off E. Broad St. Phone
400. Pansies, giant strain, roses,
No. -1-grade, perennials, flowering
shrubs, gladiola bulbs, started
tuberous begonia bulbs, fibrous
and rex begonias. Named varieties,
4-15 2tp.
APARTMENT TO LEASE — Five
rooms and bath. Broad street. Modern in all respects. With garage.
Phone 95, 3-5tf
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$08 S. Church St., Grass Valley, Calif.
WATCHES CLEANED, $1.00. Mainsprings, $1.00. Watch Chrystals,
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regarded in his flight for safety. Now that quiet gentleman is
convinced that no fatter what the breed, the he-male“is more
deadly than the she; Mr. Kipling to the contrary notwithstanding.
Uncle Silas says: ‘‘] hope we have no recall; it might not
do any harm to change tweedle-dee for tweedle-dum, but in
this case we might get tweedle-dum-dum and that would surely shatter the body politic.” —A. MERRIAM CONNER.
IAike to see fat people laugh, becase there seems to be so much of
‘them having a good time.
the district. For every dollar lost in
this manner local. property owners
must be taxed in order to make up,
the difference. fo
iation of the term “average daily attendance,”’ or average number
' days a pupil has been in attendance
at school for a current year. It is also the basis upon which school districts receive from the state money
with which to aperate the school,
Last year, for instance, the Nevada
City high school reported an average
daily attendance of 236. —
found that the amount available. in
the state school fund,’ a fund supof:
The state
here presented have
many implications as far as parents
and pupils are concerned. Reduced
to a daily re-imbursement basis, they
mean that for every ddy a pupil is
absent, the school district loses 50
cents. That in itself does not seem
to be so important until itis realized
that some pupils are absent. as many
as _30 days ‘or more in a school year.
Last year pupil absences totaled
2285 days or a loss of $1142.77 to
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-107 min street Nevada County Photo Center
PHONE 67 Portraits, Commercial Photography,
\ & 8 Hour Kodak Finishing, Old Copies,
Drorecnapree Enlarging and Framing,
Kodaks and Photo Supplies,
Grass Valley Movie Cameras and Films
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The most important deduction to
draw from these facts is that parents and pupis can cooperate with AIRCRAFT
the schools by making every effort FACTORY
to ‘have pupils present at school every JOBS
day humanly possible’and not absent
for reasons other than sickness. The Wanted At Once Se
following are typical of excuses, othMechanically inclined
er than for sickness, presented by men, ages 18-45, to
bupils on the return. to. school.after+
absence: at the hair-dressers; stayed
out too late last night; went out of
town; resting after a strenuous week
end; had company at home.
“work in aircraft factories. Men accepted must
finance self thrrough 6week training. See Dr.
Swift, Bret Harte Hotel,
Grass Valley, Tuesday
or Wednesday, until 9
Pp. m.
RETURNS HOME
Rolland Wright, who was operated upon two weeks aga, has so far
recovered that he will be able to
leave ‘the hospital and return to his
home today He has been quite ill.
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NEW STREAMLINED
UNDER F LOOD LIGHTS
NOONS AT 2 O’CLOCK
28ACTS — 2BANDS — 300 PEOPLE
Circus Prices—Adults ___
Free Tickets for Children under 14 years of age at your
following merchants—Nevada City: Penrose Grocery,
Bret Harte Dairy. Kopp’sMarket, Nevada City Ice Delivefy, National Hotel and
Coffee Shop and the Boston Store.
Mountain Chevrolet Co. and the Grass
and at all Associated Oil Stations.
“ALL SEATS FREE”
MATINEE-‘SATURDAY AND SUNDAY” AFTER:
DOORS OPEN AT 6:30 EACH NIGHT
SHOW GROUNDS LOCATED AT CASHIN FIELD
. The Only Show of Its Nature Exhibiting on the North
American Continent
35c
15c
Bakery, Keystone Meat
Grass Valley:
Valley Laundry
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