April 3, 1944 (4 pages)

The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per earn “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are s ready to guard and defend it.””—Daniel Webster. Nevada City Nu gget . friends, your seighberk seni the’ cia! The Nugget. et ow scr ree COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA __ ———— sT S ae es. seca The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA _ eee Gold Center ___MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1944 YAH] . Thinuing . SS.BOARDIN Making A Better America RED CROSS HEAD [BLOOD DONORS Out Loud By H. M. L. REPLY TO QUERY ea We have had splendid. rhetoric ing on twelve years, and prior to this war we had acquired a national indebtedness of something like 20 billions in addition to wha: we had left over from ‘the last war. Because even U. S. Treasurer Andrew Mellon had not been able to get all the national debt of the last war paid, ‘before President Roosevelt, promising economy, took over and began spending. te The gift of being able to talk money out of people is a’ great gift. It'is that gift that gets auto ‘and realty salesmen their jobs, SBIN: and sometimes -when specially gifted they die quite wealthy. But, probably never in history has there EN lived a man who so enraptured a great pedple that he talked 20 billions-out of them in the short N gpace, we'll say, of eight years, or . {wo tetms in the White House. No wonder a nation which produces so many salesmen returned Mr. ROWN . Roosevelt to office for a third cial term, oF a third cup of coffee. YNDAY In selling us a bill of goods he has failed two or three times, to . tbe sure, but on the whole his 10N salesmanship has been of the Olympian variety. He has been _ guper-super. He failed in selling us a job lot of Supreme Court justices who thought and, he hoped, would continue to think, as he does. He failed: more recently when he vetoed a tax bill, which will only produce: two and a half Dillion dollars, a trifling sum— ? ho. hum--a. mere > -bagatelle—not enough to provide your Uncle Samuel with chicken feed change = —ho hum. : “sin when: we stand off and look: at this record, we find the President has sold us ‘a bill. of goods and -to date has kept us ‘on it. This is not only a record in* salesmanship, it is anothr record. No American in-the past has held the confidence of Als countrymen, the majority of them, that long. Of courde, there Wag Washington, but then the Father of His Country did not tempt fate by going after a third term. He stepped down, while the “applause. ‘wag at. its apogee. Know-iig human nature, a little at east, we do think George WashWas even wiser than most ‘his admirers give him credit litically speaking he believmeine and let living. He did Doelitically speaking good men who might in me presidency. elt has managed it’ is amere or because’ he it, ‘we cannot say, or But the leading men in “pesty. are. . politically ~ Whey. have not had a at a. build-up, using thePhrase of political hacks their word wizards. They are raters, when not thirds. ho ‘ar the most deep dyed is Party for instance would . f-dreaming Henry Wallace the White House, or what-aId Iskes, or the portly 4ey, or even the compliant dn many ways the most able he lot, James Byrnes. So havsmothered all his rivals in the beneath a load of silken » there is no one in political ‘to joust with the GOP ele/ Mant but the president and his Minning rhetoric, _ Personally we have iittle saps that the Deople in the United StatWill ever ' measure the presiin the light of his deeds. ™ listen better than we see. While he speaks he is chang“6 color, but only the close ob— “S$ and the very thoughtful ee ‘Re charge. Mostly people liseve what they hear, ‘and : to See the changing col, the president Wk fk Sirner the majority of votes, Mire a Republican candiwith a Harvard accent now for go. assigned to Nevada County, and it i-were NeilRahn, assistant regional ‘JUNE 30 . final decision in’ connection with the OF A MOTHER mous letter, bearing the Signatur “A Mother,” The letter. with place deleted follows: “Gentlemen: by our board? This is happening a (name deleted). There are older un employed men who could these young men from Nevada City, to war.’ (Signed) A MOTHER.” thorized the following public reply: “(Dear Mother: { . Sle men and non fathers under 26 ‘be given further deferment. The . board is now sending a considerable . peairitae of thes ‘men into the armed . services. There are not enough of . these’ younger men in deferred class' iifications, however, to fill quotas ‘will still be hecessary to induct . fathers under 38 years of age.’ Sincerely’ NEVADA COUNTY SELECTIVE SERVICE BOARD. MANPOWER HELD HERE © A conference of forest service executives was held in this city last week to consider methods of meeting the: manpower shortage which is expected to be especially “drastic during the fire season this summer. Both Guerdon Ellis, supervisor of the Tahoe National Forest, and: William F. Sharp, state ranger in charge of the State Division of Foyestry camp located here, have expressed apprehension . concerning the fire outlook, ‘with annual snowfall and precipitation below normal years. Neither are. taking any chances but are beginning now to muster their crews for the summer. ~Taking part in the conference in the .Tahoe . Forest. headquarters here genes forester and assistant supervisor of the Trinity National Forest, Chester Morris and D. H. Traugh, assistant regional foresterérs, Frank Jefferson of the Division of Operations, and Barl Bachman of the division of personnel «all of San Francisco. SCHOOL LUNCHES ASSURED TILL In ‘response to numerous "queries from school lunch sponsors in ‘Nevada County resulting from recent action by the House of Representatives turning down an oppripriation for the 1944-45 school. lunch program, Raymond W. Phelps, area supervisor of WI'A’s Office of Distribution, said that all cOhtracts made prior to the end of June will be carried out and sponsors will be fully reimbursed. ‘The congress has not made a continuation of the WFA-community sponsored school junch program during the next fiscal year, but in any event funds already appropriated through June of this _— will not ted,” Phelps sa pppoe, there are 111 schools and 15,026 children participating in the eommunity lunch program in Alpine, Amador, Butte, Colusa, Glenn, The Nevada County Selective Service Board has received an anony“Why are deferments being granted men under 26 without children while older fathers are being called replace who are under 26 and childless, and who are at the present time asking for deferments while: local fathers go At the last meeting of the Nevada County Selective Service Board this letter was read. Since it was anonymous, James @. Tyrrell, chairman of the board, the board concurring, au“Until recently the Selective Service Board had no choice but to de. fer single men or non-fathers in several critical industries. The board, is governed by Selective Service regulations. Recently these were changed so that now, very rarely will sinBy H. (Author and deavors to answer _the e s this is the second installment: (Continued From Last Issue) t I again call your attention to th . fact that the Better gram of the National Association 2 itiated by chosen representatives o the management of, the industrie to our armed. forces and to our allie tion for war. Postwar prosperity is the hope 9 every one of us and to achieve it is, or should be, our earnest endeavor. tion for .dustry to peace time economy. in “Big Business,” as Manufacturers. fears tion, lantic City, last week. Reports of these proceedings disclose that the NAM program provides . for the close cooperation and participation of representatives of each and every one of us—big and'small. At this meeting, which may welt become historic, industry; labor and agriculture was fairly represented. Delegates from sixteen national organizations got tegether in a common cause and after two days discussion, unanimously agreed to stick together in é6ffortsi to achieve a common and—a better America. Among these sixteen national organizations represented by fifty delegates, were: Rotary International, Kiwanis International, U. S. Chamber of Commerce, American: Farm Bureau Federation, National Grange American Bankers Association and the American Legion. . With one or more of these organizations each and every one of us are in some manner identified. —_ Other organizations represented were the National. Association _ of (Manufacturers. (sponsor of the convention) the AML, GIO, National Council of (Farmer (Cooperatives, National Foreign ‘Trade, Council, Committee for Economie Development and the Investment Bankers Association. So, as you see, while the better America program was initiated by big business it will be developed and directed by a happy and. democratic combination of business, labor and agriculture on a basis essentially non-partisan, : Although interésts diverse and often -violently. dissident: were represented it is evident that the delegated did get together and that most encourag§ng’ pyogress was made to‘ward a basis for definite and constructive agreements. The conferees, it was announced, voted emphatically in. favor of an economy ‘of plenty rather than economy of scarcity, opportunities for jobs and increasingly better living and educational advantages, opportunity to save and invest, savings and they agreed “that free enterprise ean and will wirt the peace.’ The session was unanimous in agreeing that: “tthe objective of conversion and control relaxation should be to restore the economy as speedily as possible to self-control by volultary cooperation of the important economic groups which compose it. They were united in opposition to monopolistic practices, socialization of business and government planned economy. And they agreed unanimously’ to meet again in two months and to hold bimonthly sessions. “It seems to me that i, is, at the very least, up to us to study carefully and diligently such plans and programs as are developed at these better America conferences. Congressional Committee On Post. War Economic Policy and ‘Planning Some of you have said pretty mento, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba counties, in which Phelps is area supervisor. Participation within tne state} totals 952 schools/and 169, 874 chilued on Page Two) El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, SacraEditor's Note: H. P. Davis, ‘author; and mining engineer in a discussion of the Better America Program, en-.question : What may we do to help?—Those of us who jare not in the armed services or engaged ‘in production for war are especially interested. He had some pertinent suggestions of which America proManufacturers was conceived and inwhich have produced, and delivered about eight per cent of our producProsperity depends on production for use and it is, to me, self evident that Now as to our placing confidence my friend talled the National Association. of It is obvious that this association does represent.big business fut any which may have béen entertained that big business proposed or ihtented ‘to “hog” plans for a beiter America are dissipated by a review of the proceedings of a eonveninspired by NAM, held at At. the speaker of the House of ReprésP. DAVIS Mining Engineer) tough things .,about fact-finging commissions. It has so happened that I hav that some of these experiences wer not. conducive to high expectation of constructive results from such in vestigations. on the House -Committee-on Pos m I quoted from a speech by the rank f ing minority member of this. com congress had been, ‘‘probably’’’ just : ly criticised for not assuming re § 8) this deplorable situation and tha acknowledgement was, to me, f gresstian that “this procedur past” and that ‘‘the congress ent branch of the government. this change have been so ernment. is well on the way towards restoration. ‘For more than eleven years we have lived’ under an administration nate has increasingly disregarded the “will of the people,’’ has become increasingly bureaucratic and has constantly and I believe deliberately. eniyes of the two other branches of our government; but . upon — individual freedom and has systematically un-! terprise which has made us the rich-. est and most powerful Baer on this . earth. Not only the leaders of this administration’ ,but the underlings of multifarious bureaucracies: it has , created have assumed that “they Saue possessthe requisite knowledge to. govern.” I believe that the ‘most effective preliminary to a realization of the increasing demand that we return -to’ the form of government guaranteed to us by the Constitution is a factual study or studies of postwar problems and the postwar effect on our economy of existing laws. As I told you at our last meeting, this new Special House Committee on Post War Economic Policy and Planning, created for just this pur‘pose, has been carefully constituted to represent all sections of the country and all phases of our economic life. In expressing his views as to the scope of the work of this committee entatives said: “The purpose ofthis committee is to serve.as. the _ peoples ,planning board to hasten the restoration . of Prosperity at the close of. the war. To this end the greup is empowered to summon and investigate, repres-. entatives of government, business, labor and other interests . to ascertain from fhem the most advisable Procedures and to draw into a common pool the available facts on re;cenversion ; reemployment, foregin. trade, public works, materials, release of surplus comModities and the Post war effect of existing laws.” I feel that it is here pertinent to remind you that this special committee was constituted by unanimous vote of, the House of Representatives ~~that the men who constitute this committee and those who will vote on legislation initiated by members of it, or as the result of their. labors, are the chosen representatives congressional had considerable experience with investigations by committees of both the House and the Senate. I admit But in my talk of February 18th War economic policy and planning, mittee an acknowledgement that the sponsibiligy for planning and for legislation. We have long been aware of an auspicious beginning. I also readily accepted the assurance of the con1 ig will from now on” legislate on its own : . initiative as a separate and independto the men who directed our producwar should be accorded a very ‘material share in the gigantic task of directing conversion of inWe all know that the attitude of the congress towards the acceptance: of dictation from the administration has been changing, and events which have occured since this assurance was given have demonstrated that marked that it is not.now unduly optimistic to predict that representative: goy/croached, not ofily on the Droregat. ”: dermined the system of private en-) allocation of} }Political affailiation may be. . . ‘ “As chief election official: in the . N GETS LETTER OF . APPRECIATION R. J. Bennetts, chairman of the Red Cross drive which was completed in Nevada City in 18 days, has received a letter from the San Francisco office of the Pacific Area, Division of the American Red Cross written by Esther P. Chadbourn, director of fund raising, warmly commending him and his committee. The letter, in part, follows: as “We are. delighted to receive word yesterday that your chapter had at. tained the 1944 war fund goal. You ‘should be very pleased to have big task finished before the end of the campaign month. Especially should you feel pleased when you consider that the Pacific Area as a whole has attained only 64 per cent of its area quota. You must, indeed, have had a fine campaign organization and a horde of loyal, conscientious workers. Will you please thank each-one of them for the time and effort expended to make this grand success possible. “Shortly your chapter will be receiving an honor certificate from the National Headquarters in Washing: ton, and you as war fund chairman, a special Cortiente of . appreciation.” ‘ e e Ss t t ‘DEADLINE FOR” REGISTRATION IS APR. 6. DO IT NOW . . SACRAMENTO, April 3.—Frank . M. Jordan, Secretary of State and . Galifornia’ s chief election officer, coday challenged the attitude of the . general public on -its apathy toward . registering for the forthcoming consolidated primary elections. ‘ ‘With the. ‘registration « deadline for the May 16 -primary falling on April. 6, Jordan asserted failure to register and to later vote “strikes at the foundation of the greatest democracy in the world in that it will tend to permit the minority to. * rule in place of the majority.” Calling attention to the current registration of 2,765,817, the lowest ‘inevitably Wie of wounds. 3 ‘(MAY NOW 01 BE DRAINED By LEONE BAXTER . . Wwe hear today of a modern miracle which may magnify and extend ‘from 100 to 800 per cent the lif [saving work of blood plasma on the battlefields! Originated by Dr. Co Tui eer American Bureau for Medical Af to China, ‘the procedure reinjectis red blood cells separated frdmplasma back into the veins of blood donor, enabling him safely. ‘give blood again within a few days. Those families of greviout wounded boys who live today cause plasma was available, . chafed at the medical necessity wait eight weeks ‘between blood ations, They are eager to offer to save another hoy—or maybe thet own again. Soon that two month [wait may be ‘Shortened by half shortly thereafter to. weekly intervals with no. slightest danger to . donor. That will be welcome news medical men and women who . helped pour. life, literally, back the broken .young bodies of © face to face, with death, and know first hand the wonders can perform. . : It. will be welcome news to fighting men, making their € rifices before the -erulest: fe tory, and asking only the: s chance to come back alive. — ‘And it ‘will be welcome ne blood-bank-workers here on coast wHo strive to keep up wit: huge national requirement 0 Million units. a year. No war is of vaster import than this. civilian effort will bring m our sons home who otherwise: pn “With the’ mattle. mo -dozenfronts,” says Mrs. Daily 6f the San: Franek Cross Blood Bank, “our field tals:can never have too : ply of plasma ready for The tremendous. mead ft complishes.” & Since Dr.Co Tuis’ ieee yet ready for general Be declared: “The most cherished rigtit of the American citizen is his privilege to choose those who will. make his laws, That is what we have fought since the ‘beginning of our republic and the principle reason for all the engaged.ens of California in not registering a‘ hard to understand, We have just. campaign to allow. our soldiers “to : vote, and one would think ‘this would . , essity. of registering. “At the present time reports trom registration is over a million: below should not exist. cB rae & “The question of politics. doen not enter into the desire of the election. Officials to stimulate registration. zen to register. regardless of what. we state of California, I urgently Te-. quest that all citizens register — they do not already nna 2 on thes’ election roll.”’ ‘;of “we tlie people” responsible to us and if they are not truly represet:tative of a cross-section of the people—-whose fault is it but ours-——the people who put and retain them in office. If we'are not willing to trust such Matters to the congress there is something essentially wrong — not with our system of government, bat with the way in which we the people exercise the franchise or fail in doing so. Whether or ‘hot you agree with meé that it is our duty to study such programs as that initiated by NAM, you all know flamned well that it is, your bounden duty to study and weigh the ‘character and. ability of the men for whom you vote for elective office—and to Keep: tabs on pace activities as ‘your representatvi You all Know: ‘that the time is approaching, . perhaps the most critical drén? of the Nevada City Nugget, was. unmunity is registered, and, on election ‘day to do our utmost every registered ‘ote: polls and casts a ‘ballot are clear and on the ge It 1 Pend our well et papeperity and ; The serial story “Indian — Beef” now running in each Monday's issue . ’ avoidably omitted from this issue, . but will appear next Thursday. . ing the ce duty to cast a ballot for candidates gely, chief for office, including a candidate for. California; ‘M. 0. the most important elective office in. for District No. 4, ana the world. donnie: Glebe let un Regardless of “political ‘affiliation it is up to us to register and to see} that every eligible voter in our comThe issues in may de-. ® th, future A our happ in 14: years, ‘the eaprcie of ‘state a ‘for. * ‘wars in s docate this country has ‘been . . “The present. apathy of she. ‘eltizC to vote at the coming ,elections is}. ‘gone through a vigorous national ” 4 call attention to our citizens the nec: re . They feel it is the duty of every citi: [torment . te . ere mj i, evening, Ontinnd oie Issue . . ha teat the. Royal Beis the County Clerks indicate that the. 9? At a in our history, when it will be our: Poe

The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per earn “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are s ready to guard and defend it.””—Daniel Webster. Nevada City Nu gget . friends, your seighberk seni the’ cia! The Nugget. et ow scr ree COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA __ ———— sT S ae es. seca The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA _ eee Gold Center ___MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1944 YAH] . Thinuing . SS.BOARDIN Making A Better America RED CROSS HEAD [BLOOD DONORS Out Loud By H. M. L. REPLY TO QUERY ea We have had splendid. rhetoric ing on twelve years, and prior to this war we had acquired a national indebtedness of something like 20 billions in addition to wha: we had left over from ‘the last war. Because even U. S. Treasurer Andrew Mellon had not been able to get all the national debt of the last war paid, ‘before President Roosevelt, promising economy, took over and began spending. te The gift of being able to talk money out of people is a’ great gift. It'is that gift that gets auto ‘and realty salesmen their jobs, SBIN: and sometimes -when specially gifted they die quite wealthy. But, probably never in history has there EN lived a man who so enraptured a great pedple that he talked 20 billions-out of them in the short N gpace, we'll say, of eight years, or . {wo tetms in the White House. No wonder a nation which produces so many salesmen returned Mr. ROWN . Roosevelt to office for a third cial term, oF a third cup of coffee. YNDAY In selling us a bill of goods he has failed two or three times, to . tbe sure, but on the whole his 10N salesmanship has been of the Olympian variety. He has been _ guper-super. He failed in selling us a job lot of Supreme Court justices who thought and, he hoped, would continue to think, as he does. He failed: more recently when he vetoed a tax bill, which will only produce: two and a half Dillion dollars, a trifling sum— ? ho. hum--a. mere > -bagatelle—not enough to provide your Uncle Samuel with chicken feed change = —ho hum. : “sin when: we stand off and look: at this record, we find the President has sold us ‘a bill. of goods and -to date has kept us ‘on it. This is not only a record in* salesmanship, it is anothr record. No American in-the past has held the confidence of Als countrymen, the majority of them, that long. Of courde, there Wag Washington, but then the Father of His Country did not tempt fate by going after a third term. He stepped down, while the “applause. ‘wag at. its apogee. Know-iig human nature, a little at east, we do think George WashWas even wiser than most ‘his admirers give him credit litically speaking he believmeine and let living. He did Doelitically speaking good men who might in me presidency. elt has managed it’ is amere or because’ he it, ‘we cannot say, or But the leading men in “pesty. are. . politically ~ Whey. have not had a at a. build-up, using thePhrase of political hacks their word wizards. They are raters, when not thirds. ho ‘ar the most deep dyed is Party for instance would . f-dreaming Henry Wallace the White House, or what-aId Iskes, or the portly 4ey, or even the compliant dn many ways the most able he lot, James Byrnes. So havsmothered all his rivals in the beneath a load of silken » there is no one in political ‘to joust with the GOP ele/ Mant but the president and his Minning rhetoric, _ Personally we have iittle saps that the Deople in the United StatWill ever ' measure the presiin the light of his deeds. ™ listen better than we see. While he speaks he is chang“6 color, but only the close ob— “S$ and the very thoughtful ee ‘Re charge. Mostly people liseve what they hear, ‘and : to See the changing col, the president Wk fk Sirner the majority of votes, Mire a Republican candiwith a Harvard accent now for go. assigned to Nevada County, and it i-were NeilRahn, assistant regional ‘JUNE 30 . final decision in’ connection with the OF A MOTHER mous letter, bearing the Signatur “A Mother,” The letter. with place deleted follows: “Gentlemen: by our board? This is happening a (name deleted). There are older un employed men who could these young men from Nevada City, to war.’ (Signed) A MOTHER.” thorized the following public reply: “(Dear Mother: { . Sle men and non fathers under 26 ‘be given further deferment. The . board is now sending a considerable . peairitae of thes ‘men into the armed . services. There are not enough of . these’ younger men in deferred class' iifications, however, to fill quotas ‘will still be hecessary to induct . fathers under 38 years of age.’ Sincerely’ NEVADA COUNTY SELECTIVE SERVICE BOARD. MANPOWER HELD HERE © A conference of forest service executives was held in this city last week to consider methods of meeting the: manpower shortage which is expected to be especially “drastic during the fire season this summer. Both Guerdon Ellis, supervisor of the Tahoe National Forest, and: William F. Sharp, state ranger in charge of the State Division of Foyestry camp located here, have expressed apprehension . concerning the fire outlook, ‘with annual snowfall and precipitation below normal years. Neither are. taking any chances but are beginning now to muster their crews for the summer. ~Taking part in the conference in the .Tahoe . Forest. headquarters here genes forester and assistant supervisor of the Trinity National Forest, Chester Morris and D. H. Traugh, assistant regional foresterérs, Frank Jefferson of the Division of Operations, and Barl Bachman of the division of personnel «all of San Francisco. SCHOOL LUNCHES ASSURED TILL In ‘response to numerous "queries from school lunch sponsors in ‘Nevada County resulting from recent action by the House of Representatives turning down an oppripriation for the 1944-45 school. lunch program, Raymond W. Phelps, area supervisor of WI'A’s Office of Distribution, said that all cOhtracts made prior to the end of June will be carried out and sponsors will be fully reimbursed. ‘The congress has not made a continuation of the WFA-community sponsored school junch program during the next fiscal year, but in any event funds already appropriated through June of this _— will not ted,” Phelps sa pppoe, there are 111 schools and 15,026 children participating in the eommunity lunch program in Alpine, Amador, Butte, Colusa, Glenn, The Nevada County Selective Service Board has received an anony“Why are deferments being granted men under 26 without children while older fathers are being called replace who are under 26 and childless, and who are at the present time asking for deferments while: local fathers go At the last meeting of the Nevada County Selective Service Board this letter was read. Since it was anonymous, James @. Tyrrell, chairman of the board, the board concurring, au“Until recently the Selective Service Board had no choice but to de. fer single men or non-fathers in several critical industries. The board, is governed by Selective Service regulations. Recently these were changed so that now, very rarely will sinBy H. (Author and deavors to answer _the e s this is the second installment: (Continued From Last Issue) t I again call your attention to th . fact that the Better gram of the National Association 2 itiated by chosen representatives o the management of, the industrie to our armed. forces and to our allie tion for war. Postwar prosperity is the hope 9 every one of us and to achieve it is, or should be, our earnest endeavor. tion for .dustry to peace time economy. in “Big Business,” as Manufacturers. fears tion, lantic City, last week. Reports of these proceedings disclose that the NAM program provides . for the close cooperation and participation of representatives of each and every one of us—big and'small. At this meeting, which may welt become historic, industry; labor and agriculture was fairly represented. Delegates from sixteen national organizations got tegether in a common cause and after two days discussion, unanimously agreed to stick together in é6ffortsi to achieve a common and—a better America. Among these sixteen national organizations represented by fifty delegates, were: Rotary International, Kiwanis International, U. S. Chamber of Commerce, American: Farm Bureau Federation, National Grange American Bankers Association and the American Legion. . With one or more of these organizations each and every one of us are in some manner identified. —_ Other organizations represented were the National. Association _ of (Manufacturers. (sponsor of the convention) the AML, GIO, National Council of (Farmer (Cooperatives, National Foreign ‘Trade, Council, Committee for Economie Development and the Investment Bankers Association. So, as you see, while the better America program was initiated by big business it will be developed and directed by a happy and. democratic combination of business, labor and agriculture on a basis essentially non-partisan, : Although interésts diverse and often -violently. dissident: were represented it is evident that the delegated did get together and that most encourag§ng’ pyogress was made to‘ward a basis for definite and constructive agreements. The conferees, it was announced, voted emphatically in. favor of an economy ‘of plenty rather than economy of scarcity, opportunities for jobs and increasingly better living and educational advantages, opportunity to save and invest, savings and they agreed “that free enterprise ean and will wirt the peace.’ The session was unanimous in agreeing that: “tthe objective of conversion and control relaxation should be to restore the economy as speedily as possible to self-control by volultary cooperation of the important economic groups which compose it. They were united in opposition to monopolistic practices, socialization of business and government planned economy. And they agreed unanimously’ to meet again in two months and to hold bimonthly sessions. “It seems to me that i, is, at the very least, up to us to study carefully and diligently such plans and programs as are developed at these better America conferences. Congressional Committee On Post. War Economic Policy and ‘Planning Some of you have said pretty mento, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba counties, in which Phelps is area supervisor. Participation within tne state} totals 952 schools/and 169, 874 chilued on Page Two) El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, SacraEditor's Note: H. P. Davis, ‘author; and mining engineer in a discussion of the Better America Program, en-.question : What may we do to help?—Those of us who jare not in the armed services or engaged ‘in production for war are especially interested. He had some pertinent suggestions of which America proManufacturers was conceived and inwhich have produced, and delivered about eight per cent of our producProsperity depends on production for use and it is, to me, self evident that Now as to our placing confidence my friend talled the National Association. of It is obvious that this association does represent.big business fut any

which may have béen entertained that big business proposed or ihtented ‘to “hog” plans for a beiter America are dissipated by a review of the proceedings of a eonveninspired by NAM, held at At. the speaker of the House of ReprésP. DAVIS Mining Engineer) tough things .,about fact-finging commissions. It has so happened that I hav that some of these experiences wer not. conducive to high expectation of constructive results from such in vestigations. on the House -Committee-on Pos m I quoted from a speech by the rank f ing minority member of this. com congress had been, ‘‘probably’’’ just : ly criticised for not assuming re § 8) this deplorable situation and tha acknowledgement was, to me, f gresstian that “this procedur past” and that ‘‘the congress ent branch of the government. this change have been so ernment. is well on the way towards restoration. ‘For more than eleven years we have lived’ under an administration nate has increasingly disregarded the “will of the people,’’ has become increasingly bureaucratic and has constantly and I believe deliberately. eniyes of the two other branches of our government; but . upon — individual freedom and has systematically un-! terprise which has made us the rich-. est and most powerful Baer on this . earth. Not only the leaders of this administration’ ,but the underlings of multifarious bureaucracies: it has , created have assumed that “they Saue possessthe requisite knowledge to. govern.” I believe that the ‘most effective preliminary to a realization of the increasing demand that we return -to’ the form of government guaranteed to us by the Constitution is a factual study or studies of postwar problems and the postwar effect on our economy of existing laws. As I told you at our last meeting, this new Special House Committee on Post War Economic Policy and Planning, created for just this pur‘pose, has been carefully constituted to represent all sections of the country and all phases of our economic life. In expressing his views as to the scope of the work of this committee entatives said: “The purpose ofthis committee is to serve.as. the _ peoples ,planning board to hasten the restoration . of Prosperity at the close of. the war. To this end the greup is empowered to summon and investigate, repres-. entatives of government, business, labor and other interests . to ascertain from fhem the most advisable Procedures and to draw into a common pool the available facts on re;cenversion ; reemployment, foregin. trade, public works, materials, release of surplus comModities and the Post war effect of existing laws.” I feel that it is here pertinent to remind you that this special committee was constituted by unanimous vote of, the House of Representatives ~~that the men who constitute this committee and those who will vote on legislation initiated by members of it, or as the result of their. labors, are the chosen representatives congressional had considerable experience with investigations by committees of both the House and the Senate. I admit But in my talk of February 18th War economic policy and planning, mittee an acknowledgement that the sponsibiligy for planning and for legislation. We have long been aware of an auspicious beginning. I also readily accepted the assurance of the con1 ig will from now on” legislate on its own : . initiative as a separate and independto the men who directed our producwar should be accorded a very ‘material share in the gigantic task of directing conversion of inWe all know that the attitude of the congress towards the acceptance: of dictation from the administration has been changing, and events which have occured since this assurance was given have demonstrated that marked that it is not.now unduly optimistic to predict that representative: goy/croached, not ofily on the Droregat. ”: dermined the system of private en-) allocation of} }Political affailiation may be. . . ‘ “As chief election official: in the . N GETS LETTER OF . APPRECIATION R. J. Bennetts, chairman of the Red Cross drive which was completed in Nevada City in 18 days, has received a letter from the San Francisco office of the Pacific Area, Division of the American Red Cross written by Esther P. Chadbourn, director of fund raising, warmly commending him and his committee. The letter, in part, follows: as “We are. delighted to receive word yesterday that your chapter had at. tained the 1944 war fund goal. You ‘should be very pleased to have big task finished before the end of the campaign month. Especially should you feel pleased when you consider that the Pacific Area as a whole has attained only 64 per cent of its area quota. You must, indeed, have had a fine campaign organization and a horde of loyal, conscientious workers. Will you please thank each-one of them for the time and effort expended to make this grand success possible. “Shortly your chapter will be receiving an honor certificate from the National Headquarters in Washing: ton, and you as war fund chairman, a special Cortiente of . appreciation.” ‘ e e Ss t t ‘DEADLINE FOR” REGISTRATION IS APR. 6. DO IT NOW . . SACRAMENTO, April 3.—Frank . M. Jordan, Secretary of State and . Galifornia’ s chief election officer, coday challenged the attitude of the . general public on -its apathy toward . registering for the forthcoming consolidated primary elections. ‘ ‘With the. ‘registration « deadline for the May 16 -primary falling on April. 6, Jordan asserted failure to register and to later vote “strikes at the foundation of the greatest democracy in the world in that it will tend to permit the minority to. * rule in place of the majority.” Calling attention to the current registration of 2,765,817, the lowest ‘inevitably Wie of wounds. 3 ‘(MAY NOW 01 BE DRAINED By LEONE BAXTER . . Wwe hear today of a modern miracle which may magnify and extend ‘from 100 to 800 per cent the lif [saving work of blood plasma on the battlefields! Originated by Dr. Co Tui eer American Bureau for Medical Af to China, ‘the procedure reinjectis red blood cells separated frdmplasma back into the veins of blood donor, enabling him safely. ‘give blood again within a few days. Those families of greviout wounded boys who live today cause plasma was available, . chafed at the medical necessity wait eight weeks ‘between blood ations, They are eager to offer to save another hoy—or maybe thet own again. Soon that two month [wait may be ‘Shortened by half shortly thereafter to. weekly intervals with no. slightest danger to . donor. That will be welcome news medical men and women who . helped pour. life, literally, back the broken .young bodies of © face to face, with death, and know first hand the wonders can perform. . : It. will be welcome news to fighting men, making their € rifices before the -erulest: fe tory, and asking only the: s chance to come back alive. — ‘And it ‘will be welcome ne blood-bank-workers here on coast wHo strive to keep up wit: huge national requirement 0 Million units. a year. No war is of vaster import than this. civilian effort will bring m our sons home who otherwise: pn “With the’ mattle. mo -dozenfronts,” says Mrs. Daily 6f the San: Franek Cross Blood Bank, “our field tals:can never have too : ply of plasma ready for The tremendous. mead ft complishes.” & Since Dr.Co Tuis’ ieee yet ready for general Be declared: “The most cherished rigtit of the American citizen is his privilege to choose those who will. make his laws, That is what we have fought since the ‘beginning of our republic and the principle reason for all the engaged.ens of California in not registering a‘ hard to understand, We have just. campaign to allow. our soldiers “to : vote, and one would think ‘this would . , essity. of registering. “At the present time reports trom registration is over a million: below should not exist. cB rae & “The question of politics. doen not enter into the desire of the election. Officials to stimulate registration. zen to register. regardless of what. we state of California, I urgently Te-. quest that all citizens register — they do not already nna 2 on thes’ election roll.”’ ‘;of “we tlie people” responsible to us and if they are not truly represet:tative of a cross-section of the people—-whose fault is it but ours-——the people who put and retain them in office. If we'are not willing to trust such Matters to the congress there is something essentially wrong — not with our system of government, bat with the way in which we the people exercise the franchise or fail in doing so. Whether or ‘hot you agree with meé that it is our duty to study such programs as that initiated by NAM, you all know flamned well that it is, your bounden duty to study and weigh the ‘character and. ability of the men for whom you vote for elective office—and to Keep: tabs on pace activities as ‘your representatvi You all Know: ‘that the time is approaching, . perhaps the most critical drén? of the Nevada City Nugget, was. unmunity is registered, and, on election ‘day to do our utmost every registered ‘ote: polls and casts a ‘ballot are clear and on the ge It 1 Pend our well et papeperity and ; The serial story “Indian — Beef” now running in each Monday's issue . ’ avoidably omitted from this issue, . but will appear next Thursday. . ing the ce duty to cast a ballot for candidates gely, chief for office, including a candidate for. California; ‘M. 0. the most important elective office in. for District No. 4, ana the world. donnie: Glebe let un Regardless of “political ‘affiliation it is up to us to register and to see} that every eligible voter in our comThe issues in may de-. ® th, future A our happ in 14: years, ‘the eaprcie of ‘state a ‘for. * ‘wars in s docate this country has ‘been . . “The present. apathy of she. ‘eltizC to vote at the coming ,elections is}. ‘gone through a vigorous national ” 4 call attention to our citizens the nec: re . They feel it is the duty of every citi: [torment . te . ere mj i, evening, Ontinnd oie Issue . . ha teat the. Royal Beis the County Clerks indicate that the. 9? At a in our history, when it will be our: Poe