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_PAGE SIX
NE EVADA cITy TT Y_NUGGET.
THIS mer intss
SUSAN goon
A True Story From Overseas
to speaking in:
public. But as Owen Jenkins, ma-!.
chinist in the Royal dockyards at!
Portsmouth, rose to address that lit = .
tle group of men assembled to decide
whether 500,000 British engineers .
should walk out of their jobs in ship-,
yards and arms plants for the sake
of more money, he was not afraid.
There had -been talk of the possibility of a strike for days now and
Owen Jenkins had lain awake nights
thinking of his two sons. One was
with the R.A.F. in Greece, the other
—somewhere on the North Seas—
both of them risking their lives every
moment of the day and night for the
sake of their country. And the men
in his Union who were essential to
the production of munitions this sons
were using were threatening to quit
their jobs for the sake of a few bob
a week! It was all wrong.. he
knew .. the kind of thing that
would encourage the enemy and demoralize the country itself as well
as hold up needed production.
There had been a number of
speeches before his turn came. Men
who pounded on the table and said
now was the time for the working:
man to get what was coming to him!
Now was. the time when no one
would dare to stand against them!
And then, Owen Jenkins rose. He
didn’t talk very long. . . . He spoke
very quietly but what he said came
from his heart. He told them of his
two boys whom he had hoped would
mever have to go to any war. But .
He was not used
. please God they Ways ss
they had been gone for months now.
“When they come home again as
What could
I say to them if I stopped working
now while they are fighting? Is a few
bob all that matters in this world?’’
And then, “Are we prepared to
supply the enemy commentators with
proof for the outside world that’ the
engineers of Britain want to strike?”’
They heard him out and at the end
there’ was a deep rumble of sympathetic applause. Jack Tanner, also of
the Amalgamated Engineering Union,
endorsed Jenkins’ work, asking “Are
we at this critical time to withdraw
our work when.defenses are needed
and when our members and our families need defense?”
So the strike was voted down and
the work being done by those 500,000 skilled men continued and England was that much stronger because
one man realized clearly that the
workmen of a nation in a modern War
play as vitel a art in Defense as the
armed forces—that it is as necessary
for Industry to carry on as it is for
the Navy to send its ship to sea or
the Air Force to fly its fighting
planes!
The Christmas card came from -he
English custom of calling “Merry
Christmas,” then later to write congratulatory letters.
The first authentic mention of a
Christmas tree is of one in Strasburg, Germany, 1605.
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Seadson’s Greetings
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CHRISTMAS
BLESSINGS
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May the New Year
Bring You
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JERROLD L. SEAWELL
_ when he started out alone on skis
. for Murray’s hill.
To All Our
Patrons and
Friends in This
Yuletide Season
We Wish
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Long Life and a
Very
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% all.
RESH snow crunched under Dick Wright’s SHOES .
as he stomped into the waiting .
room.
Old Peter was still there,
still minding his telegraph
key as he had when Dick was .
a boy. But now it was Christmas; now Dick was home
from “the city, a successful young .
architect.
As he walked up tq, old Peter’s
grilled ticket window, Dick recalled
the last time he stood in this sta¢ion.
Two and a half years ago, it was,
the day after Jean had left for New
York in search of a career.
‘Just can’t stand Marysville,”’ she
had told him. ‘‘You’ll understand,
Dick, won’t you?’’
He had forgotten as best he could.
Nothing in Marysville for him then,
either. There had been a quick decision, a closing of half-open doors,
a tearful good-by to his parents and
then—off to the city. It was odd
how a blow like that could give a
fellow determination. Today, just
30 months later, he was coming back
home with a’ career already carved
out.
Old Pete looked up from his sheaf
of train orders.
“Well, Richard!’’ he cried. ‘‘Glad
to see you, boy, and a Merry Christmas! Your folks know you’re comin’?’’
“Merry Christmas to you, Pete!”
Dick answered. It was nice, at
that, to see a familiar face. ‘‘Mind
if I use your ’phone? I caught an
early train and Dad wasn’t expecting me until tonight.”’
A few minutes later the old family car was carrying him home. His
Dad looked older, and a mite wor‘*Heard from Jean, son?’’ he asked.
ried. Something was on his mind.
“Heard from Jean, son?”’ he finally asked.
“No, Pop,” he answered truthfully. The house loomed up ahead now.
‘““Why do you ask?”’
“Oh, just wonderin’, son, that’s
é Forget it. There’s Mother wayin’ at us up yonder!”’
But Dick couldn’t forget it. Marys. ville and Jean were like ham and
He thought about her when he . eggs.
stopped at the drugstore that night—
they used to drink sodas there.
Maybe Dick was looking for more
of those memories next morning
They used to
play there in. the winter, he and
Jean.
“Forget it, you imbecile!”
snapped at himself. ‘‘That’s a closed
chapter in your life!’’
It was a couple of hours later that
he saw her. Skiing down Murray’s
hill for the last time -he rounded
Horseshoe bend to find Jean directly in his path! There was a shriek,
a thud, and then four feet sticking
out of’ a snowdrift.
‘‘Jean!’’ he cried, unstrapping his
skis and running to help her. ‘Are
you hurt?”
It was rather unromantic, perhaps, pulling her out feet first. But
she laughed at him and fell down
again, pulling him after her.
“You’re going to get your face
washed for that, Mr: Wright,’? she
cried.
He came up sputtering to find her
suddenly serious. :
“Dick dear,’ she said, “I was
wrong. Mother wrote that you’d be
home for Christmas and—well, I
had to come too. It’s you and
Marysville that I want, not New
York. This morning when I saw
you going past our house, I somehow knew that I should: go with you.
Not just today, Dick, but always!”
It was like ham and eggs, Dick
thought, only the next day was
Christmas—and Christmas meant
turkey!
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Beginning of the New Year
Various dates were used in different countries, for the beginning of a
year, but America followed the English custom of using the date of
most early Christian countries—
about the beginning of the ecclesiastical year. The Gregorian calendar, establishing January 1 as the
beginning of the year, was adoptT752" England and her colonies in
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MONDAY, DECEMBER _ 23,
1940.
SALES TAX MAY
SOON OVERTAKE
STATE DEFICIT
BY JOHN W. DUNLAP
United Press.Staff Correspondent
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 23—(U-P.)
Like a healthy shot in the arm,
mounting expenditures for national
defense are boosting state revenues
rae a thermometer on a hot day.
There are other factors helping the
financial ‘gains, and general Teem. ployment is the biggest, but the de'fense money is something you can
fut your finger on. Chief beneficiary
,is the state sales tax, those odd pen. nies paid on so many everyday tran‘ sactions.
. For example, the normal revenue
from the sales tax comprises almost
exactly 50 per cent of the revenue
coming into the general fund. For
the current biennium ending next
June 30, the sales tax will represent
53.6 per cent—the rather staggering
total of $1943,00,000—and for the
next biennium, it may easily come
close to 44 per cent.
The sales tax is the best barometer
of business conditions because the
return to the state is so quick. The
90-day. limit on sales tax accounts
gives a rapid indication of how much,
money is going over the state’s business counters.
The department of finance recently
estimated that general fund revenues
in the 1941-43 biennium would reach
$400,000,000. That this was not a
wild guess is borne out by figures
compiled by the state controller for
use in computing registered warrant
accounts. The total) estimated revenue for the current biennium is $362,175,000, and the predicted 10 per
cent increase would place it pretty
close to the four hundred milion
mark,
The average man in the street has
no conception of finances when the
million dollar mark is reached, let
alone 400 times that amount. So it
total general
from the “‘big three’? group—sales
tax, personal income tax, and bank
and corporation tax, Each of those
three categories is benefitting from
national defense expenditures, which
will have a tremendous effect on the
state’s economy and financial welfare.
To explain a little further
where the money goes when Mr. Taxpayer receives an income tax request,
or pays his sales. tax, here is a simple breakdown of each tax, the estimated revenue for the current biennium, and the percentage it represents in the grand total:
Retail sales and use tax, $194,300,000, 53.6; bank, corporation” franchise tax, $42,500,000, 11.7; pers)nal income tax, $38,000,000, 10.5; alcohol beverage tax and licenses, $24,1 100,000, 6.7; motor vehicle license
fees (in lieu tax), $10,900,000, 3.0;
inheritance tax, $21,600,000 6.0; in‘surance tax, $15,500,000, 4.3; motor
transport tax, $5,100,00, 1.4; private
ear company tax, $850,000, 0.2; gift
tax, $525,000, 0.1; miscellenaous,
$8,800,00 2.5. Total $362,175,000.
Another positive indication that
'eonditions are improving is seen in
the comparison of revenue in the
first five months of the 1940-41 fiscal year, and the same period of
1941-32. The first period totaled
$80,254,000, while the estimated return for the same five months in the
next fiscal year was $81,430,000,
chiefly due to the bulge in sales tax
figures.
The .activities of Governor Olson
in Washington have aroused varions
speculations back in his home state.
The governor announced he was interested chiefly in talking to department of interior officials and the
president about making the Central
Valley Project a ‘‘little TVA’’; checkin on the WPA, and the Colorado
rriver basin situation.
Then Richard Olson, the .Governor’s son, bobbed up in the nationai
capital and the wires buzzed that a
federal job was being sought for him.
One radio commentator was pretty
sure the governor wanted the job as
ambassador to Mexico.
Another source heard that
wanted to be secretary of labor.
. The rumors are a dime a dozen,
apparently, with the governor the
lone authority on just what was in
he
ticket for the east coast.
Transfer of Seright’s
Interest in Wear Mine
Recorded at Court House
The transfer of Al Seright’s interest in the Wear Mine to C. W. Worthley has been recorded at the court
be connected in the operation of the
mine,. which is located in the Remton mining district.
may be news that 75 per cent of the;
fund revenue comes.
just:
his mind when he bought a roundtrip
house here. Seright will no longer}.
ington Hill section of the WeshinsCARD OF THANKS
In appreciation of the many kindnesses, the sympathy, assistance,
and floral offerings of his,friends
and former comrades in the last illness and passing of Alfred J. Eddy,;
and especially for the great service
of the American Legion, in our hereavement, we offer our heartfelt
gratitude. 5
THE EDDY FAMILY.
Apparently there is only one thing
in this world that runs over more
people than the automobile, comments James M. Carter, Director of
Motor Vehicles, and that is the airplane. ee
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