December 11, 1939 (6 pages)

_NEVADA CITY NUGGET _MONDAY, » DECEMBER 11. 1939. ~ Nevada City Nugget aa & 305 Broad Street. Phone 36.tg tas) od Legal Newspaper, as defined by statute. Printed and Published at Nevada City. Editor and Publisher H. M. LEETE Published Semi-Weekly, Monday and Friday at Nevada. City, California, and entered as mail matter of the secénd class in the postoffice at Nevada City. under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES , One year (In Advance) $2.50 Initiative and R.ferendum Abuses of initiative and referendum are cited to show the need for reform. Citizens sign petitions which, if understood, would be abhorred. Repeated efforts are made to wear down resistance and catch the voters in a moment of apathy, to let slip some measure they have rejected again and again. In the gloom of the polling booth the voters are required to do hastily what the Legislature’is paid to do and should do better by deliberate consideration. These are handicaps inherent in popular government. They are handicaps that the people must overcome if they are to continue self rule. To better. guard against mass weakness there are proposals to make submission more difficult by requiring more signatures, or territorial repre-entation. or forbidding resubmission for various periods from two to five years. Each such proposal calls' for careful and suspicious analysis. Petitions already are almost prohibitive in cost. Making them more so would put a premium upon selfish, well financed campaigns. A good proposal, mistakenly turned down. would be denied resubmission even if emergency demanded and the public, upon reconsideration. desired it. Laws do not always work out the way they sound. A hard won right may be surrendered or curtailed in a moment of laxity. Any curtailment mvst be a limitation upon a right already possessed by the people. At worst. initiative and referendum 2re hetter then a bad Legislature. It is easier for lobbyists to pet aver a hed lew kill a cood one in the Lecislature. than to mislead the neople The value of initiative and referendum is not alone in the laws initiated or referred. but is also in the check uvon legislators. The constant reminder that the veovle have this recourse has a healthy effect. Without it there might be many more laws the people would want to initiate, or refer, than now appear on the ballot. © Admittedly it would be useful to curb the abuses and ways may be found. But there should be care lest we burn down the barn to get rid of the rats.—Contributed. The Supreme Dictator Stirs _ (Siskiyou News) : It's a “queer” war. Nothing has come of pre-war predictions of sky-darkening fleets of bombers obliterating great cities, of lightening thrusts by millions of super-equipped soldiers. Why? The reasons advanced by Lloyd George, last of the great diplomats of World War days, are arresting and— when analyzed—of encouragement to a war-fearful world. It is not anti-aircraft guns that prevent wholesale bombing of non-combatant populations, but “fear of equally destructive reprisals on cities of the aggressor nation. Further, pointing out that 1,537,800 Frenchmen were killed ard 4,266,000 . wounded in the World War, Lloyd George aezerts: ““French ministers who today projected operations that would incur the : same ghastly casualties, in order to restore shattered boundaries in Central Europe, would be speedily overthrown.” And _ recalling that Germany left 1,773,700 dead up upon World ‘War battlefields, he declares that “‘dictator though Hitler be, German opinion—amilitary and civil—now faces his behests involving the spilling of rivers of German blood with a stub_born resistance. And so no general on either side will take the __ responsibility of repeating the senseless carnage of the great ”. offensives of the last war. é : And that simply means that the lethargic, slow-awakening but supreme dictator—the collective will of the peoples Dc atOe Europe—is crying out against international mass murder -with a voice no dictator, no commander thirsting for military ry, dares disobey! The voice of Democracy—for all that Recency is, is the united will and action of all the people of : a nation assuming authority over their own destiny—is at Hitler. If he smashed the Maginot line by breakthe bodies of millions of German boys against it, his peold destroy him. Frenchmen will die defending their ne soil; but they will not march by. millions to their doom mst the guns of the Siegfried line. In the very “queerness”’ f this war lies hope for humanity. Democracy is not dead in ‘any aged Macidecions ass bin taxes and budgets Whether government is ‘twidbas good i is for the piles to decide. Is protection of the eabhe and Guisisiosl twiceas efficient? Has crime been cut in half? Are children:being twice as well equipped to meet their life problems? Is it twice as easy to get a job. or run a farm or a business? Whatever the answer to these questions and others like them, the fact remains that the cost of government has doubled and the taxpayer’s income has not. What is hard to get across to a great many persons is that they pay taxes even if they do not get tax bills. There are taxes on every thread in a shirt or dungarees, on every crumb of bread, on every roof that shelters a head, not one tax but a pyramid of taxes. Of every dollar spent by millionaire or WPA client. from a quarter to a third goes to taxes. When this is understood there may be some tax reform. The first step is to quit new spending schemes and enterprises that call for money or credit or tax exemptions, then cut the: present discretionary spending, then go into the mandatory spending class. Analysis of any budget shows that what the Legislature controls directly is comparatively small. The bulk is mandatory appropriations. Some of these are inescapable, like interest on borrowed money. Some are mandatory because they have been made so. By reversing the process they can be made un-mandatory and cut. This process must be followed unless the public debts. national, state and local, are to be met by repudiation under some fancy name. And if they are so met, it will cost money to everyone who has a business, a home, or a job. He may wind up by having none of these. The special session of the Legislature in the offing gives point to apprehension on this score. There are any number of projects waiting for attention, a mere ten millions. twenty millions, for this or that socially desirable project. The ones to be most feared are those that “actually cost nothing,” beed about are mere figures of speech. Taxpayers who think know that nothing costs nothing.—Contributed. CAMPTONVILLE, Dee. 11.—Mrs. Nona Williams left Tuesday for her home at Dobbins after spending several days here visiting Mrs. Rachael M. Labadie. ; James Kirkpatrick, a corporal in the air service at March Field, arrived Tuesday on a two weeks vacation with the Espinosa family at Pike City. Miss Elsie Price had the misfortune Friday of getting a piece of steel in her eye, making it necessary to go to Nevada City for medical at. tention. Mrs. William A. Lang took her down. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Turner have moved from the Grant and Heether saw mill and are now residing in the Flagg house on Spencer street. George Butz killed another big bear Friday morning about a mile above town in the old Buck orchard this making the second bear George has brought down in a week. Theré are quite a few bear in this locality and George has been right on the job. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Meggers returned Wednesday evening from three days spent at Nevada City where Mr. Meggers attended to forest service business. “Who in your family made ‘most brilliant marriage?’’ “My wife.” the “CAPTIVE TION (Continued from Page One) cause the millions. tens of millions, hundreds of millions talk-. = tivity—their ancestors having been brought to the United States from East Africa. The animals have appeared in many Hollywood motion pictures that required an African or East Indian background. Cooper spends two days a week, four hours at a time, at Gay’s Lion Farm. His job is to observe the jungle beasts in an effort to’ get as much information as he can about the way in which the big semi-domesticated eats act. “When we have gained enough genera information about captive Tions, we will be better prepared to formulate specific problems concerning their sensory capacities, learning abiities, wildness and other qualities,’’ Cooper points out. “These findings will be placed CAMPTONVILLE SUHOOLS CLOSE _ FOR SEASON ba CAMPTONVILILE, Dec.” 11.—The Camptonville Union Grammar school and the Camptonville branch of the Marysville union high school are closed for the term . Both schools held a party Friday afternoon. The teacher, Mrs. Grace Pauly and Mrs. Constance Pfiffer of the grammar school and W. ©. Williams of the high school expect to remain here during the winter. Jones—‘“Is insomnia catching?” side by side with previous observations on other members of the cat family. In this way a complete body of comparative psychological information may be built up. This particular study of lions will be a small unit to be eventually fitted into a complete description of animal behavior.”’ a aaa a IF EVERY MAN WERE KING ; AND EVERY WOMAN QUEEN season, would be: washing to 111 Bennett Street The most pleasing announcement .the Lord High Chamberlain could make, especially during the holiday “Your Majesties, the laundry driver is here.” Christmas season, is to say, The greatest gift any man can make his wife during the from now on send the THE GRASS VALLEY LAUNDRY & DRY CLEANERS Grass Valley Phone 108 TRAILER HOUSE for sale. Furnished or unfurnished. 2% blocks west of Alta Hill Store in Grass Valley on property of Henry Belanger. 12-112tp WANTED — Good used drag saw. Notify Herman Ramm, Camptonville, California. 12-11-1tp PIANO BARGAINS — Latest’ type Spinet console piano also Studio Upright piano almost new to be . sold here in Nevada City at big Sy savings. Most any terms can be arranged for quick sale. For location and inspection. privileges write at once to J. Stone, Adjusi-. # er, 923% 16th St., Sacramento,. ® California. 12-83te. # fy ve yy ~w ‘ ~ ; WATCHES CLEANED, $1.00. Main-. & springs, $1.00. Watch Chrystals. # round, 25c, fancy, 50c. All work. # guaranteed. J. M. Bertsche, Watch. @ and Clock repairing. With Ray’s. # Fixit Shop, 109 West Main Street. Grass Valley. 12-1tf FILBERTS (HAZELNUTS) Shelled . # and unshelled for sale at Pen-. roses’, Roma, Purity and Prouse’s. grocery stores. Grown in Nevada ARTISTIC LAMPS @ Floor Lamps from $5.75 a¢ Bridge Lamps from $2.95 County, “Delicious buttert a, . & HRISTMAS TREE — cakes, roads, ram it 5 C LIGHT SETS =; Indoor Sets _. $39c up BARGAIN % Outdoor Sets _. --95¢ up TRUCK Cross links for skid qhnien — 3 dual and single at less than half} # price. Send me your chain problem. 1325 — 92d Ave., Oakland ciphers that it looks like astronomical light years from taxpayers. pockets. t has Beotied i in ten years. APARTMENT — 5 rms. and bath,/@ Broad street. Modern in all respects. With garage, Phone 95. ; 11-20tf} _ (REAL ESTATE 132 MILL STREET Valley. ELECTRIC HEATERS Priced from .$1.50 up ELECTRIC MIXERS “Priced at _.$4.95 and up WAFFLE IRONS Priced from Oe 8 $2.50 FOUR MORE $100 RADIOS will be given away at the Strand Theatre between now and the end of Feb-. ruary. Every customer will receive free coupons for each 50 cents cash purchase or payment on account. : FOC OOTE ELECTRICAL CO. MAGICAL, MODERN AND USEFUL is Buy Your Electrical Gifts on Our Lay-Away Buying #& Plan, FOOTE ELECTRICAL CO. presents its big3 gest electrical gift stock in its long history in Grass ELECTRIC IRONS is $1.50 and up = HEATING PADS JB Priced from. $1.98 up: ‘= COFFEE MAKERS a Gas models from $2.95 PHONE 122 erences

_NEVADA CITY NUGGET _MONDAY, » DECEMBER 11. 1939. ~ Nevada City Nugget aa & 305 Broad Street. Phone 36.tg tas) od Legal Newspaper, as defined by statute. Printed and Published at Nevada City. Editor and Publisher H. M. LEETE Published Semi-Weekly, Monday and Friday at Nevada. City, California, and entered as mail matter of the secénd class in the postoffice at Nevada City. under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES , One year (In Advance) $2.50 Initiative and R.ferendum Abuses of initiative and referendum are cited to show the need for reform. Citizens sign petitions which, if understood, would be abhorred. Repeated efforts are made to wear down resistance and catch the voters in a moment of apathy, to let slip some measure they have rejected again and again. In the gloom of the polling booth the voters are required to do hastily what the Legislature’is paid to do and should do better by deliberate consideration. These are handicaps inherent in popular government. They are handicaps that the people must overcome if they are to continue self rule. To better. guard against mass weakness there are proposals to make submission more difficult by requiring more signatures, or territorial repre-entation. or forbidding resubmission for various periods from two to five years. Each such proposal calls' for careful and suspicious analysis. Petitions already are almost prohibitive in cost. Making them more so would put a premium upon selfish, well financed campaigns. A good proposal, mistakenly turned down. would be denied resubmission even if emergency demanded and the public, upon reconsideration. desired it. Laws do not always work out the way they sound. A hard won right may be surrendered or curtailed in a moment of laxity. Any curtailment mvst be a limitation upon a right already possessed by the people. At worst. initiative and referendum 2re hetter then a bad Legislature. It is easier for lobbyists to pet aver a hed lew kill a cood one in the Lecislature. than to mislead the neople The value of initiative and referendum is not alone in the laws initiated or referred. but is also in the check uvon legislators. The constant reminder that the veovle have this recourse has a healthy effect. Without it there might be many more laws the people would want to initiate, or refer, than now appear on the ballot. © Admittedly it would be useful to curb the abuses and ways may be found. But there should be care lest we burn down the barn to get rid of the rats.—Contributed. The Supreme Dictator Stirs _ (Siskiyou News) : It's a “queer” war. Nothing has come of pre-war predictions of sky-darkening fleets of bombers obliterating great cities, of lightening thrusts by millions of super-equipped soldiers. Why? The reasons advanced by Lloyd George, last of the great diplomats of World War days, are arresting and— when analyzed—of encouragement to a war-fearful world. It is not anti-aircraft guns that prevent wholesale bombing of non-combatant populations, but “fear of equally destructive reprisals on cities of the aggressor nation. Further, pointing out that 1,537,800 Frenchmen were killed ard 4,266,000 . wounded in the World War, Lloyd George aezerts: ““French ministers who today projected operations that would incur the : same ghastly casualties, in order to restore shattered boundaries in Central Europe, would be speedily overthrown.” And _ recalling that Germany left 1,773,700 dead up upon World ‘War battlefields, he declares that “‘dictator though Hitler be, German opinion—amilitary and civil—now faces his behests involving the spilling of rivers of German blood with a stub_born resistance. And so no general on either side will take the __ responsibility of repeating the senseless carnage of the great ”. offensives of the last war. é : And that simply means that the lethargic, slow-awakening but supreme dictator—the collective will of the peoples Dc atOe Europe—is crying out against international mass murder -with a voice no dictator, no commander thirsting for military ry, dares disobey! The voice of Democracy—for all that Recency is, is the united will and action of all the people of : a nation assuming authority over their own destiny—is at Hitler. If he smashed the Maginot line by breakthe bodies of millions of German boys against it, his peold destroy him. Frenchmen will die defending their ne soil; but they will not march by. millions to their doom mst the guns of the Siegfried line. In the very “queerness”’ f this war lies hope for humanity. Democracy is not dead in ‘any aged Macidecions ass bin taxes and budgets Whether government is ‘twidbas good i is for the piles to decide. Is protection of the eabhe and Guisisiosl twiceas efficient? Has crime been cut in half? Are children:being twice as well equipped to meet their life problems? Is it twice as easy to get a job. or run a farm or a business? Whatever the answer to these questions and others like them, the fact remains that the cost of government has doubled and the taxpayer’s income has not. What is hard to get across to a great many persons is that they pay taxes even if they do not get tax bills. There are taxes on every thread in a shirt or dungarees, on every crumb of bread, on every roof that shelters a head, not one tax but a pyramid of taxes. Of every dollar spent by millionaire or WPA client. from a quarter to a third goes to taxes. When this is understood there may be some tax reform. The first step is to quit new spending schemes and enterprises that call for money or credit or tax exemptions, then cut the: present discretionary spending, then go into the mandatory spending class. Analysis of any budget shows that what the Legislature controls directly is comparatively small. The bulk is mandatory appropriations. Some of these are inescapable, like interest on borrowed money. Some are mandatory because they have been made so. By reversing the process they can be made un-mandatory and cut. This process must be followed unless the public debts. national, state and local, are to be met by repudiation under some fancy name. And if they are so met, it will cost money to everyone who has a business, a home, or a job. He may wind up by having none of these. The special session of the Legislature in the offing gives point to apprehension on this score. There are any number of projects waiting for attention, a mere ten millions. twenty millions, for this or that socially desirable project. The ones to be most feared are those that “actually cost nothing,” beed about are mere figures of speech. Taxpayers who think know that nothing costs nothing.—Contributed. CAMPTONVILLE, Dee. 11.—Mrs. Nona Williams left Tuesday for her home at Dobbins after spending several days here visiting Mrs. Rachael M. Labadie. ; James Kirkpatrick, a corporal in the air service at March Field, arrived Tuesday on a two weeks vacation with the Espinosa family at Pike City. Miss Elsie Price had the misfortune Friday of getting a piece of steel in her eye, making it necessary to go to Nevada City for medical at. tention. Mrs. William A. Lang took her down. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Turner have moved from the Grant and Heether saw mill and are now residing in the Flagg house on Spencer street. George Butz killed another big bear Friday morning about a mile above town in the old Buck orchard this making the second bear George has brought down in a week. Theré are quite a few bear in this locality and George has been right on the job. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Meggers returned Wednesday evening from three days spent at Nevada City where Mr. Meggers attended to forest service business. “Who in your family made ‘most brilliant marriage?’’ “My wife.” the “CAPTIVE TION (Continued from Page One)

cause the millions. tens of millions, hundreds of millions talk-. = tivity—their ancestors having been brought to the United States from East Africa. The animals have appeared in many Hollywood motion pictures that required an African or East Indian background. Cooper spends two days a week, four hours at a time, at Gay’s Lion Farm. His job is to observe the jungle beasts in an effort to’ get as much information as he can about the way in which the big semi-domesticated eats act. “When we have gained enough genera information about captive Tions, we will be better prepared to formulate specific problems concerning their sensory capacities, learning abiities, wildness and other qualities,’’ Cooper points out. “These findings will be placed CAMPTONVILLE SUHOOLS CLOSE _ FOR SEASON ba CAMPTONVILILE, Dec.” 11.—The Camptonville Union Grammar school and the Camptonville branch of the Marysville union high school are closed for the term . Both schools held a party Friday afternoon. The teacher, Mrs. Grace Pauly and Mrs. Constance Pfiffer of the grammar school and W. ©. Williams of the high school expect to remain here during the winter. Jones—‘“Is insomnia catching?” side by side with previous observations on other members of the cat family. In this way a complete body of comparative psychological information may be built up. This particular study of lions will be a small unit to be eventually fitted into a complete description of animal behavior.”’ a aaa a IF EVERY MAN WERE KING ; AND EVERY WOMAN QUEEN season, would be: washing to 111 Bennett Street The most pleasing announcement .the Lord High Chamberlain could make, especially during the holiday “Your Majesties, the laundry driver is here.” Christmas season, is to say, The greatest gift any man can make his wife during the from now on send the THE GRASS VALLEY LAUNDRY & DRY CLEANERS Grass Valley Phone 108 TRAILER HOUSE for sale. Furnished or unfurnished. 2% blocks west of Alta Hill Store in Grass Valley on property of Henry Belanger. 12-112tp WANTED — Good used drag saw. Notify Herman Ramm, Camptonville, California. 12-11-1tp PIANO BARGAINS — Latest’ type Spinet console piano also Studio Upright piano almost new to be . sold here in Nevada City at big Sy savings. Most any terms can be arranged for quick sale. For location and inspection. privileges write at once to J. Stone, Adjusi-. # er, 923% 16th St., Sacramento,. ® California. 12-83te. # fy ve yy ~w ‘ ~ ; WATCHES CLEANED, $1.00. Main-. & springs, $1.00. Watch Chrystals. # round, 25c, fancy, 50c. All work. # guaranteed. J. M. Bertsche, Watch. @ and Clock repairing. With Ray’s. # Fixit Shop, 109 West Main Street. Grass Valley. 12-1tf FILBERTS (HAZELNUTS) Shelled . # and unshelled for sale at Pen-. roses’, Roma, Purity and Prouse’s. grocery stores. Grown in Nevada ARTISTIC LAMPS @ Floor Lamps from $5.75 a¢ Bridge Lamps from $2.95 County, “Delicious buttert a, . & HRISTMAS TREE — cakes, roads, ram it 5 C LIGHT SETS =; Indoor Sets _.. $39c up BARGAIN % Outdoor Sets _. --95¢ up TRUCK Cross links for skid qhnien — 3 dual and single at less than half} # price. Send me your chain problem. 1325 — 92d Ave., Oakland ciphers that it looks like astronomical light years from taxpayers. pockets. t has Beotied i in ten years. APARTMENT — 5 rms. and bath,/@ Broad street. Modern in all respects. With garage, Phone 95. ; 11-20tf} _ (REAL ESTATE 132 MILL STREET Valley. ELECTRIC HEATERS Priced from ..$1.50 up ELECTRIC MIXERS “Priced at _.$4.95 and up WAFFLE IRONS Priced from Oe 8 $2.50 FOUR MORE $100 RADIOS will be given away at the Strand Theatre between now and the end of Feb-. ruary. Every customer will receive free coupons for each 50 cents cash purchase or payment on account. : FOC OOTE ELECTRICAL CO. MAGICAL, MODERN AND USEFUL is Buy Your Electrical Gifts on Our Lay-Away Buying #& Plan, FOOTE ELECTRICAL CO. presents its big3 gest electrical gift stock in its long history in Grass ELECTRIC IRONS is $1.50 and up = HEATING PADS JB Priced from.. $1.98 up: ‘= COFFEE MAKERS a Gas models from $2.95 PHONE 122 erences