December 29, 1939 (6 pages)

Thinking Out Loud The Liberty of the Press consists in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives and for justBy H. M. L. COVERS RICHEST GOLD eo IN CALIFORNIA cam ifiable ends. ton. —Alexdnder HamilA great many commentators have decided that the Allies have . already won the war, though Ger-. “Many may be sometime surrendering. Bit by bit Germany’s merchant marine and naval vessels are being captured or sunk and the belt tightening process among the German people that Hitler began @s8 a preparedness measure is now beginning to pinch in actual war. However, no-one yet can say that Hitler is through. There are several desperate expedients he may: try before yelling ‘‘kamerade.’’ To seize food stuffs and war materjals he may invade Scandinavia, via Denmark, or Holland and Belgium, or third, the Balkan states. The last we deem unlikely since it . seems very. probable that he would ' then have Russia to fight in the east. : ‘But we doubt, however desperate his straits, that Hitler will in' vade neutral nations. It is already ‘a bit late in the day to help his ease. The neutrals have been bus-, ily preparing to resist Hitler since he invaded Poland. If the Germans invaded any of these countries they would find them hard nuts to crack. It would mean a long extension of the fighting front, and prodigal expenditure of munitions and war transport. In the end he would have added new armies to the Allies powerful forces, for very doubtful advantages. World moral factors both Hitler and Stalin ignore as of no practical account. Still with a mad-man at the helm, no one can say which direction the ship will sail. Thus conceding the war already won, with land fighting a stale“mate and sea fighting giving every evidence of British and French superiority, commentators are busily speculating on the peace to folow the war. In this connection the ost notable and, probably the ost idealistic, contribution, is that of Clarence Streit, “gests in his book, ‘“‘Union Now”, a Federal Union of all democracies, who would guarantee to. their eitizens a minimum, and elementary bill of rights. Each country in becoming a member of this Federal Union woud surrender as much of its sovereignty as was ‘necessary to practical workability. , The Union for instance would take / over coinage and exchange, foreign affairs as relating to the world outside the union, and tariff barriers between members of the union would be, to all practical purposes, abolished. The Federal Union would also maintain a military establishment, consisting undoubtely of the combined armjes and navies of the members, for common defense. The internal affairs of each democracy would be strictly its own business, so long as its citigens enjoyed all rights sguaranteed in the bill. of rights. Whenthose were modified or abolished by law, expulsion from the union would be the only penalty; this on the theory that any nation which destroys civil liberty, automatically ceases to be a democracy. Offhand, it would seem as_ if this plan were far more likely to work than the League of Nations. Suppose for instance such a union of democracies liad been in existence when Hitler came to power. Poland, Austria, Czech-Slovakia, and even Germany at that time would have been members. When Hitler put into practice his peculiar doctrine’ of human vassalage . @nherent in state socialism, Ger‘¢} many, would, . of . course, have ceased to be a member of the M@hion. But would Hitler have ' aunched his drive for conquest ' among the other three, if back of ' them stood a Federal Union. comprising all the countries -of , the ‘New World, Scandanavia, Holland, Belgium, one or two of. the Balkan states,. and. last, Ffanee and Bngland? We doubt it, world war we obSince. the serve, no single nation can guar_ antee its own peace. Group action is the only recourse, Since the world dearly yearns for peace, * somewhere, somehow, a beginning ‘must be made. Perhaps Streit’s book offers a way. The difficulty, He sug_Vol. 13, No. 103. The County Seat Paper NEVA A CITY, CALIFORNIA, . The Gold Center FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1939 — CROSSCUT IN MURCHIE MINE NOW IN 1750 FT. The tunnel, being driven from the 400 foot level in the Murchie mine to the North Banner property, also owned by the Newmont interests, is in over 1750 feet. The four automatic liners working three _ shifts average 20 feet per day in drifting, or an average of 500 feet per month. The tunnel will be about 6000 feet long when completed. CHRISTMAS TREE SALE GROSS $110 Sales of Christmas trees for. the benefit of the Boy Scouts of Nevada. City grossed $110, it was reported yesterday by Charles Elliott, chairman of Rotary’s scout committee. AUTO LICENSE RENEWAL FROM JAN. 2.70 FEB. 4 For California’s millions of car owners, securing new license plates for 1940 will loom as one of earljest important items of business with the start of the new year. The period fixed by law for annual renewal of automobile registration will open Tuesday, January 2, and continue to February 4. Postcard notices telling the amount of fees required to obtain new plates for each car are being mailed out this week by the Department of Motor Vehicles, The charges consist of the regular registration fee of $3 and the vehicle license fee, or in lieu tax replacing the former personal property tax, at the rate of $1.75 for each $100 of car valuation. Plates will .be issued by the partment at its various offices and by the California ‘State Automobile Association to member motorists at district offices throughout northern and central California. Application for renewal requires presentation of the 1939 certificate of registration and the postcard notice also should be presented to facilitate the procedure. Under a new ruling of the Department no plate issuing office will be permitted to give out plates except in consecutive order from each box. In other words, applicants will no longer be able to obtain certain requested numbers as they have been able to do in the past. Failure to apply for renewal within the designated period will incur penalties, consisting of a doubled registration fee and a 50 per cent inerease in the amount of vehicle license fee. MRS, PHOEBE MC KENZIE SUMMONED BY DEATH (Mrs. Phoebe McKenzie, aged 85 years, died at the home of Mrs. Ernest Carnes Wednesday morning from infirmities of old age. She was one of the oldest natives of Nevada ‘City and resided for many years with her late husband on a ranch west of ‘Nevada City. . She moved with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Craig, to San Francisco and spent a great deal of her younger life there. A brother, the late L. D. Craig was a noted San Francisco attorney. Surviving her are three _nieces, and a nephew, Mrs. ‘Mary “Gray, Esparto; Mrs, Cassie Griffin, Winters; Miss Elsie Craig, Berkeley and John Craig, Nevada City. The remains are at Holmes Funeral Home and ‘funeral arrangements will be announced later. of Nations indicates that unless by common consent this is done among the more enlightened nations,, we shall find no barriers erected against war. Instead the world will witness a subsidence, gradual but definite, into a kind of ‘scientific barbarism, from which _. it may not emerge for centuries, — de-. & XMAS FESTIVAL BED ED ee ee ee ee eee RS Le Ls Le fs a) pleasant, you may be saying, pe en ee Ty weet het Deed bed Ped oes , eet reat) 9 ° CF fen S fee Y fe S bee > ee pen eo ee en Lee. De Agee ee ee ED Oe eh ee er est) nF font ie was fort. ‘ CSc J <a Sy es x Ss 2x3 CR Bee Lee Th eB OP DOF ho Roe ay aS ca Sid Sib Sx) oS UST Where I wonder little New Year Nineteen Forty, ' Why you stand and stare accusingly at me; I'm not to blame for all the wild disorder Which you have come upon so suddenly. There’s really nothing I can do about it— My voice could never rise above the din, Why should I turn from peaceful paths and To help you stem the tides of pain and sin? I wonder if the attitude of aloofness and non-intervention which many of us assume toward events taking place in the werld about us, is the correct one. As nineteen Forty mounts his throne and surveys _ the topsy-turvy realm over which he now holds sway, “yes, the affairs of this old world are sadly muddled—many things need’ fixing, but what can one mere individual do about it?” Now, that is exactly what the New Year wishes to find out, and,. being a product of all the ages past, he: does not under estimate the value of individual ef‘Mere individuals’. have left many luminous foot — prints upon the sands of time; some of them enjoyed the advantages of wealth and position, but a greater number came from homes of poverty and obscurity—— but they all left shining marks. In this day of universal bewilderment, some one must solve the problems which seem to elude the minds now trained upon them; some one must formulate plans for restoring? peace and decency, some one must put thoughts into'words that will sway the multitude, crystalize public sentiment and lead the way to a far, far better order of society than this in which we now live. It may be your task to at least lend aid to these desirable tasks—why not? The New Year comes to fin sphere at peace with all the worl the western hemi; but the sorrows of other lands and other peoples cast grim shadows over our accustomed festivities. ¢ yield to the emotions of anxiety and ¢ should we look away to the time which is surely coming when hate and greed and strife, having run their However, it is not well to regret; rather evil course, humanity will be ready for the tasks of'restoration and reconstruction and for the inauguration of a better way of life founded upon the basic principles of truth and justice, co-operation, harmony and good will. A Happy New Year to All. — A, MERRIAM CONNER. FOR CHILDREN OF TRINITY TONIGHT Trinity church holds its annual Christmas festival this evening at 8 p. m. Children will receive gifts from their church. The parents are expected to attend with their children, There will be a 35 minute service with address and music, The vested choir will be directed by Mrs. Libbey, while Mrs. Grace Raymond will be at the organ. Special music will be rendered by some of the young people. The text of the rector’s short address is taken from the sixth chapter of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians, ‘‘Children Obey your parents in the Lord—and, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.” Following the 35 minute service, the children will give a few select numbers in verse and in music. Our youngest children taking part in the church school program will be four years of age. All the people in the paaeeniins are invited to attend this festival for the children of Trinity church school. This is an opportunity to meet the teaching staff of Trinity parish. H. THOMAS PATEMAN) Rector. ‘Carlos Casmore, who is stationed . ’ at the Presidio, San Francisco, spent the Christmas holidays with rj restricted areas due to lack of rehis parents, Mr. and’ Mrs. wee Weege. The group spent Christma: day in Loomis with friends and Cas‘more returned to his duties Tuesday. ' Judge George L. Jones, past grand master of the Grand Lodge of Masons of the State of California, presided . at a joint installation of three lodges in the Masonic Temple in Sacraménto Wednesday evening. if . MAIL DELIVERY SERVICE WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON Postmaster, ‘Betty Martin West, reports that although the survey made by actual count, on December 15, of acceptable mail receptacles, did not meet with the required 85 per cent established boxes, consideration has been given the public due to their being unable to procure receptacles from the merchants, Shipments were delayed and on the afternoon of December 15, there was not a box for available sale in town. Mrs. West reports that the streets not meeting’ with requirements are Hast and West Broad streets, Nile street as well as Grove street. It was not known on this date wether patrons in these areas were intending to continue lobby box serviee but Mrs. West advises people living on these streets who desire city delivery and who live within the city limits, to at once erect boxes and number their houses that complete delivery may be made.” 1 Advice from the post office Senate ment is to the effect that the equipment necessary to carrier service has ‘been shipped to the Nevada City office and upon its arrival a definite ‘date for city delivery establishment twill be announced. The public is again reminded that this new service is confined to city limits with the exclusion of a few quired 50 per cent block improvements. The filing of ¢hange of ad‘dress card with a postal clerk will determine this matter for the patron. ‘lobby . box ‘service may of course continue to retain their ‘lobby boxes but : under no circumstances may a patron be served through mor avenue of de very. Englebright Says Big Battle Impends On Spending Program Congressman Harry L. Englebright and family are leaving this morning for Washington D. ©. He wishes to; be on ground a day or two before Congress opens. He predicts the big battle in Congress this year will be over the President’s demand for huge expenditures for national defense. He thinks the President will ask less for relief but will shift his spending program to more ships for the navy, more airplanes, more military flying fields ‘ete. When the present program is completed, many con-. gressmen believe that so far as defense is concerned, the United States, will be equipped on land, sea and in the air, to resists any group of powers that might, attack us. So Congressman Englebright declares, ths Congressional committees will closely scrutinize every item of the President’s military expansion program. “As a matter of fact’, said My. Englebright, “the experts of the army and navy never desire to overbuild. Suppose, for instance, we were to approve the expenditure of millions of dollars for ‘thousands of planes. By the time the program was completed, the planes would probably be obsolete. What the navy and.army desire is an elastic program of construction, under which they can obtain.an adequate number of both war ships and air ships in the least possible time. “Tt is not likely that the President will be able to persuade the navel and army experts to expand large tei sums for equipment which will be outmoded by the time it is built. The country, of course, is sympathetic to an adequate defense program, but a good many would like to wait and see how we compare with other nations when the program started this year is nearing completion. There is some sentiment, I know, favoring a somewhat skeletonized fleet in the Atlantic, so that protection may be offered on ‘both coasts, should anything happen to the Panama canal. ‘ “Putting in a new set of locks in canal was really more to accommodate commercial vessels than war vessels. The stoppage of trade through the canal would have far reaching effects. “But so far as the spending program is concerned there is a disposition on the part of the majority in Congress to scrutinize every item and prune wherever possible. For instance, there is a good deal of waste in overlapping functions that can be cut down. The committee now investigating relief expenditures is doing a very valuable work and I believe» Congress will be guided largely by the committee’s findings and revelations. ; ; “There will undoubtedly be out tempt to raise the debt limit abeve ~ the 45 billion that congress fixed, — but I am inclined to think the President will seek to raise additional tax~ es to pay, the bill for national defense by making a great patriotic appeal to the people themselves. There is also a probability hina mendments may be offered to the in order to legalize what the President calls moral embargoes against those nations which invade and destroy their neighbors. On the other hand there is a one hundred percent Congress that this country shall not be dragged into other nations’ wars.”” — Congressman Englebright returned four or five days ago from hearings held in San Francisco and later i Neutrality act, in Portland by the Joint Committeeon Forests. He stated that _several important matters were considered by the committee at these hearings. They found an almost universal de mand that the 25 percent of the proceeds from Federal administration which is turned back to the states, shall not be earmarked for schools, roads ‘etc. but shall be handed to the state. and apportioned: among the counties to do with as their boards of supervisors think best. The money — received by the state is in lieu of taxes which the counties lose as @ result of Federal ownership. A cer. tain percentage of the money is now earmarked for schools, and a part of it for roads etc. Witnesses at the hearings were practically unanimous that while this procedure kept taxes down in the big cities, it really in= jured the counties in which the forests lay, because, whether or no, they must spend certain proportions in prescribed channels, when as a matter of fact they might, in some years need all the money for new schools or for road improvement. The reve+ nue from the U. S. Forests originates mainly in sales of stumpage “ and grazing permits. Another twenty days without heavy rains, Mr. Englebright states, and the dam at the Yuba Narrows — will be sufficiently far along, so that : the contractors will be able to ¢ontinue work all winter. Cement pouring in the bed of the stream only a few days ago and rapid progress is being made. The str : now being side-tracked throu, immense cement flume, but h After weeks of. preparation, final . , arrangements for the 34th annual Firemen’s Masquerade Ball have beer completed and; officials believe . it will be the greatest ever held. The affair will be held in Armory Hall, tomorrow night. For 33 years the firemen have been giving the gala celebration; and for 33° years it has been > the outstanding event of this community’s . social calendar. With committees . working night and day. on. decora“Many beautiful pi ee as: rewards tions, musie and entertainment, it is. Valle expected, that the masquerade this} year will eclipse them all. The advance sale of tickets has been h and a Packed house is { Persons desiring continuance of the} determination -in

Thinking Out Loud The Liberty of the Press consists in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives and for justBy H. M. L. COVERS RICHEST GOLD eo IN CALIFORNIA cam ifiable ends. ton. —Alexdnder HamilA great many commentators have decided that the Allies have . already won the war, though Ger-. “Many may be sometime surrendering. Bit by bit Germany’s merchant marine and naval vessels are being captured or sunk and the belt tightening process among the German people that Hitler began @s8 a preparedness measure is now beginning to pinch in actual war. However, no-one yet can say that Hitler is through. There are several desperate expedients he may: try before yelling ‘‘kamerade.’’ To seize food stuffs and war materjals he may invade Scandinavia, via Denmark, or Holland and Belgium, or third, the Balkan states. The last we deem unlikely since it . seems very. probable that he would ' then have Russia to fight in the east. : ‘But we doubt, however desperate his straits, that Hitler will in' vade neutral nations. It is already ‘a bit late in the day to help his ease. The neutrals have been bus-, ily preparing to resist Hitler since he invaded Poland. If the Germans invaded any of these countries they would find them hard nuts to crack. It would mean a long extension of the fighting front, and prodigal expenditure of munitions and war transport. In the end he would have added new armies to the Allies powerful forces, for very doubtful advantages. World moral factors both Hitler and Stalin ignore as of no practical account. Still with a mad-man at the helm, no one can say which direction the ship will sail. Thus conceding the war already won, with land fighting a stale“mate and sea fighting giving every evidence of British and French superiority, commentators are busily speculating on the peace to folow the war. In this connection the ost notable and, probably the ost idealistic, contribution, is that of Clarence Streit, “gests in his book, ‘“‘Union Now”, a Federal Union of all democracies, who would guarantee to. their eitizens a minimum, and elementary bill of rights. Each country in becoming a member of this Federal Union woud surrender as much of its sovereignty as was ‘necessary to practical workability. , The Union for instance would take / over coinage and exchange, foreign affairs as relating to the world outside the union, and tariff barriers between members of the union would be, to all practical purposes, abolished. The Federal Union would also maintain a military establishment, consisting undoubtely of the combined armjes and navies of the members, for common defense. The internal affairs of each democracy would be strictly its own business, so long as its citigens enjoyed all rights sguaranteed in the bill. of rights. Whenthose were modified or abolished by law, expulsion from the union would be the only penalty; this on the theory that any nation which destroys civil liberty, automatically ceases to be a democracy. Offhand, it would seem as_ if this plan were far more likely to work than the League of Nations. Suppose for instance such a union of democracies liad been in existence when Hitler came to power. Poland, Austria, Czech-Slovakia, and even Germany at that time would have been members. When Hitler put into practice his peculiar doctrine’ of human vassalage . @nherent in state socialism, Ger‘¢} many, would, . of . course, have ceased to be a member of the M@hion. But would Hitler have ' aunched his drive for conquest ' among the other three, if back of ' them stood a Federal Union. comprising all the countries -of , the ‘New World, Scandanavia, Holland, Belgium, one or two of. the Balkan states,. and. last, Ffanee and Bngland? We doubt it, world war we obSince. the serve, no single nation can guar_ antee its own peace. Group action is the only recourse, Since the world dearly yearns for peace, * somewhere, somehow, a beginning ‘must be made. Perhaps Streit’s book offers a way. The difficulty, He sug_Vol. 13, No. 103. The County Seat Paper NEVA A CITY, CALIFORNIA, . The Gold Center FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1939 — CROSSCUT IN MURCHIE MINE NOW IN 1750 FT. The tunnel, being driven from the 400 foot level in the Murchie mine to the North Banner property, also owned by the Newmont interests, is in over 1750 feet. The four automatic liners working three _ shifts average 20 feet per day in drifting, or an average of 500 feet per month. The tunnel will be about 6000 feet long when completed. CHRISTMAS TREE SALE GROSS $110 Sales of Christmas trees for. the benefit of the Boy Scouts of Nevada. City grossed $110, it was reported yesterday by Charles Elliott, chairman of Rotary’s scout committee. AUTO LICENSE RENEWAL FROM JAN. 2.70 FEB. 4 For California’s millions of car owners, securing new license plates for 1940 will loom as one of earljest important items of business with the start of the new year. The period fixed by law for annual renewal of automobile registration will open Tuesday, January 2, and continue to February 4. Postcard notices telling the amount of fees required to obtain new plates for each car are being mailed out this week by the Department of Motor Vehicles, The charges consist of the regular registration fee of $3 and the vehicle license fee, or in lieu tax replacing the former personal property tax, at the rate of $1.75 for each $100 of car valuation. Plates will .be issued by the partment at its various offices and by the California ‘State Automobile Association to member motorists at district offices throughout northern and central California. Application for renewal requires presentation of the 1939 certificate of registration and the postcard notice also should be presented to facilitate the procedure. Under a new ruling of the Department no plate issuing office will be permitted to give out plates except in consecutive order from each box. In other words, applicants will no longer be able to obtain certain requested numbers as they have been able to do in the past. Failure to apply for renewal within the designated period will incur penalties, consisting of a doubled registration fee and a 50 per cent inerease in the amount of vehicle license fee. MRS, PHOEBE MC KENZIE SUMMONED BY DEATH (Mrs. Phoebe McKenzie, aged 85 years, died at the home of Mrs. Ernest Carnes Wednesday morning from infirmities of old age. She was one of the oldest natives of Nevada ‘City and resided for many years with her late husband on a ranch west of ‘Nevada City. . She moved with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Craig, to San Francisco and spent a great deal of her younger life there. A brother, the late L. D. Craig was a noted San Francisco attorney. Surviving her are three _nieces, and a nephew, Mrs. ‘Mary “Gray, Esparto; Mrs, Cassie Griffin, Winters; Miss Elsie Craig, Berkeley and John Craig, Nevada City. The remains are at Holmes Funeral Home and ‘funeral arrangements will be announced later. of Nations indicates that unless by common consent this is done among the more enlightened nations,, we shall find no barriers erected against war. Instead the world will witness a subsidence, gradual but definite, into a kind of ‘scientific barbarism, from which _. it may not emerge for centuries, — de-. & XMAS FESTIVAL BED ED ee ee ee ee eee RS Le Ls Le fs a) pleasant, you may be saying, pe en ee Ty weet het Deed bed Ped oes , eet reat) 9 ° CF fen S fee Y fe S bee > ee pen eo ee en Lee. De Agee ee ee ED Oe eh ee er est) nF font ie was fort. ‘ CSc J <a Sy es x Ss 2x3 CR Bee Lee Th eB OP DOF ho Roe ay aS ca Sid Sib Sx) oS UST Where I wonder little New Year Nineteen Forty, ' Why you stand and stare accusingly at me; I'm not to blame for all the wild disorder Which you have come upon so suddenly. There’s really nothing I can do about it— My voice could never rise above the din, Why should I turn from peaceful paths and To help you stem the tides of pain and sin? I wonder if the attitude of aloofness and non-intervention which many of us assume toward events taking place in the werld about us, is the correct one. As nineteen Forty mounts his throne and surveys _ the topsy-turvy realm over which he now holds sway, “yes, the affairs of this old world are sadly muddled—many things need’ fixing, but what can one mere individual do about it?” Now, that is exactly what the New Year wishes to find out, and,. being a product of all the ages past, he: does not under estimate the value of individual ef‘Mere individuals’. have left many luminous foot — prints upon the sands of time; some of them enjoyed the advantages of wealth and position, but a greater number came from homes of poverty and obscurity—— but they all left shining marks. In this day of universal bewilderment, some one must solve the problems which seem to elude the minds now trained upon them; some one must formulate

plans for restoring? peace and decency, some one must put thoughts into'words that will sway the multitude, crystalize public sentiment and lead the way to a far, far better order of society than this in which we now live. It may be your task to at least lend aid to these desirable tasks—why not? The New Year comes to fin sphere at peace with all the worl the western hemi; but the sorrows of other lands and other peoples cast grim shadows over our accustomed festivities. ¢ yield to the emotions of anxiety and ¢ should we look away to the time which is surely coming when hate and greed and strife, having run their However, it is not well to regret; rather evil course, humanity will be ready for the tasks of'restoration and reconstruction and for the inauguration of a better way of life founded upon the basic principles of truth and justice, co-operation, harmony and good will. A Happy New Year to All. — A, MERRIAM CONNER. FOR CHILDREN OF TRINITY TONIGHT Trinity church holds its annual Christmas festival this evening at 8 p. m. Children will receive gifts from their church. The parents are expected to attend with their children, There will be a 35 minute service with address and music, The vested choir will be directed by Mrs. Libbey, while Mrs. Grace Raymond will be at the organ. Special music will be rendered by some of the young people. The text of the rector’s short address is taken from the sixth chapter of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians, ‘‘Children Obey your parents in the Lord—and, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.” Following the 35 minute service, the children will give a few select numbers in verse and in music. Our youngest children taking part in the church school program will be four years of age. All the people in the paaeeniins are invited to attend this festival for the children of Trinity church school. This is an opportunity to meet the teaching staff of Trinity parish. H. THOMAS PATEMAN) Rector. ‘Carlos Casmore, who is stationed . ’ at the Presidio, San Francisco, spent the Christmas holidays with rj restricted areas due to lack of rehis parents, Mr. and’ Mrs. wee Weege. The group spent Christma: day in Loomis with friends and Cas‘more returned to his duties Tuesday. ' Judge George L. Jones, past grand master of the Grand Lodge of Masons of the State of California, presided . at a joint installation of three lodges in the Masonic Temple in Sacraménto Wednesday evening. if . MAIL DELIVERY SERVICE WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON Postmaster, ‘Betty Martin West, reports that although the survey made by actual count, on December 15, of acceptable mail receptacles, did not meet with the required 85 per cent established boxes, consideration has been given the public due to their being unable to procure receptacles from the merchants, Shipments were delayed and on the afternoon of December 15, there was not a box for available sale in town. Mrs. West reports that the streets not meeting’ with requirements are Hast and West Broad streets, Nile street as well as Grove street. It was not known on this date wether patrons in these areas were intending to continue lobby box serviee but Mrs. West advises people living on these streets who desire city delivery and who live within the city limits, to at once erect boxes and number their houses that complete delivery may be made.” 1 Advice from the post office Senate ment is to the effect that the equipment necessary to carrier service has ‘been shipped to the Nevada City office and upon its arrival a definite ‘date for city delivery establishment twill be announced. The public is again reminded that this new service is confined to city limits with the exclusion of a few quired 50 per cent block improvements. The filing of ¢hange of ad‘dress card with a postal clerk will determine this matter for the patron. ‘lobby . box ‘service may of course continue to retain their ‘lobby boxes but : under no circumstances may a patron be served through mor avenue of de very. Englebright Says Big Battle Impends On Spending Program Congressman Harry L. Englebright and family are leaving this morning for Washington D. ©. He wishes to; be on ground a day or two before Congress opens. He predicts the big battle in Congress this year will be over the President’s demand for huge expenditures for national defense. He thinks the President will ask less for relief but will shift his spending program to more ships for the navy, more airplanes, more military flying fields ‘ete. When the present program is completed, many con-. gressmen believe that so far as defense is concerned, the United States, will be equipped on land, sea and in the air, to resists any group of powers that might, attack us. So Congressman Englebright declares, ths Congressional committees will closely scrutinize every item of the President’s military expansion program. “As a matter of fact’, said My. Englebright, “the experts of the army and navy never desire to overbuild. Suppose, for instance, we were to approve the expenditure of millions of dollars for ‘thousands of planes. By the time the program was completed, the planes would probably be obsolete. What the navy and.army desire is an elastic program of construction, under which they can obtain.an adequate number of both war ships and air ships in the least possible time. “Tt is not likely that the President will be able to persuade the navel and army experts to expand large tei sums for equipment which will be outmoded by the time it is built. The country, of course, is sympathetic to an adequate defense program, but a good many would like to wait and see how we compare with other nations when the program started this year is nearing completion. There is some sentiment, I know, favoring a somewhat skeletonized fleet in the Atlantic, so that protection may be offered on ‘both coasts, should anything happen to the Panama canal. ‘ “Putting in a new set of locks in canal was really more to accommodate commercial vessels than war vessels. The stoppage of trade through the canal would have far reaching effects. “But so far as the spending program is concerned there is a disposition on the part of the majority in Congress to scrutinize every item and prune wherever possible. For instance, there is a good deal of waste in overlapping functions that can be cut down. The committee now investigating relief expenditures is doing a very valuable work and I believe» Congress will be guided largely by the committee’s findings and revelations. ; ; “There will undoubtedly be out tempt to raise the debt limit abeve ~ the 45 billion that congress fixed, — but I am inclined to think the President will seek to raise additional tax~ es to pay, the bill for national defense by making a great patriotic appeal to the people themselves. There is also a probability hina mendments may be offered to the in order to legalize what the President calls moral embargoes against those nations which invade and destroy their neighbors. On the other hand there is a one hundred percent Congress that this country shall not be dragged into other nations’ wars.”” — Congressman Englebright returned four or five days ago from hearings held in San Francisco and later i Neutrality act, in Portland by the Joint Committeeon Forests. He stated that _several important matters were considered by the committee at these hearings. They found an almost universal de mand that the 25 percent of the proceeds from Federal administration which is turned back to the states, shall not be earmarked for schools, roads ‘etc. but shall be handed to the state. and apportioned: among the counties to do with as their boards of supervisors think best. The money — received by the state is in lieu of taxes which the counties lose as @ result of Federal ownership. A cer. tain percentage of the money is now earmarked for schools, and a part of it for roads etc. Witnesses at the hearings were practically unanimous that while this procedure kept taxes down in the big cities, it really in= jured the counties in which the forests lay, because, whether or no, they must spend certain proportions in prescribed channels, when as a matter of fact they might, in some years need all the money for new schools or for road improvement. The reve+ nue from the U. S. Forests originates mainly in sales of stumpage “ and grazing permits. Another twenty days without heavy rains, Mr. Englebright states, and the dam at the Yuba Narrows — will be sufficiently far along, so that : the contractors will be able to ¢ontinue work all winter. Cement pouring in the bed of the stream only a few days ago and rapid progress is being made. The str : now being side-tracked throu, immense cement flume, but h After weeks of. preparation, final . , arrangements for the 34th annual Firemen’s Masquerade Ball have beer completed and; officials believe . it will be the greatest ever held. The affair will be held in Armory Hall, tomorrow night. For 33 years the firemen have been giving the gala celebration; and for 33° years it has been > the outstanding event of this community’s . social calendar. With committees . working night and day. on. decora“Many beautiful pi ee as: rewards tions, musie and entertainment, it is. Valle expected, that the masquerade this} year will eclipse them all. The advance sale of tickets has been h and a Packed house is { Persons desiring continuance of the} determination -in