February 5, 1937 (6 pages)

* mers, and corrections Jabor. # ; ‘ as Grass Valley bs . DProreerarrer 1 NEVADA CITY NUGGET oe FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1937. Nevada City Nugget 305 Broad Street. Phone 36 A Legal Newspaper, as defined by statute. Printed and Published at Nevada City. Neen hese ntesie te seale H. M. LEETE Eddtor and Publisher 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year (In Advance) ¢ Bee ent atengesteateete ate ate tease tentententeateeatentesteateotestentestestesteaestesteatestestententestestestesteesteeiestesteesteodesiestes Published Semi-Weekly, Monday and Friday at Nevada City, California, and entered matter of the second class in the postoffice at % Nevada City, under Act of Congress, March 3, a as mail Strikes And Our Future Those who can see beyond the immediate turmoil of labor strife in this country realize that the whole future of democracy depends on the ability of labor, capital, and the government to solve the problem reasonably soon. Today the rights, responsibilities and powers of the three parties involved are hopelessly ample, the constitutionality of question. In Britain, these rights obscure and tangled. For exthe Wagner Labor Act is in and responsibilities have been clearly established for many years. And in Britain, they don't have strikes of any consequence. Yet Britain remains a democracy. How have they done it? Organization of workers is & far more general, and far more generally accepted than in the United States. The right to strike is staunchly upheld. But there is a distinct line drawiu between legal and illegal strikes and lockouts. Most trade unions are “registered” voluntarily in a manner that would amount to incorporation in the United States. The real key to their success, however, seems too be this. No compulsory arbitration is provided, but.many industries have permanent conciliation boards which adjust most disputes before they reach the strike stage; and if they have not. the government will provide one. Perhaps we ought not to copy Britain's solution in detail, since we need an American system based on American conditions. But at least we might get some ideas for our solution through a study of the British way.—Contributed. "Do Unto Others” . The swift, generous and effective response of the whole nation to the call for help from flood-ravaged Ohio and Mississippi valleys has demonstrated a great and fundamental! truth about this country of ours. When the course to be followed is clear and the need is urgent, we can work together, men, and with a willingness to with sympathy for our fellow make sacrifices for them. And our democracy, often chided by dictators as inefficient, can act with lightning-lige effectiveness. First to move in to the scene of the mightiest flood ever to strike this nation was, as always, the ever alert Red Cross. They broadcast a plea for funds. People in California, in Texas and in Maine—people who had nothing to gain personallv and may have had little themselves, understood the suffering and opened their purse strings. Even a member of the American family of so-called “soulless corporations’ sacrificed what a really soulless industry would have claimed, when the railroads volunteered their services free to haul relief supplies, food, clothing, medicines, tents, cots and blankets to the cold, hungry refugeees. On the very heels of the Red Cross, the U. S. Government moved in, all its hastily mobilized facilities working smoothly and swiftly to rescue thousands marooned by the angry waters, to fight disease and havoc. No achievement is impossible for a nation capable of such a magnificent response. As we learn more and more of our problems, the road to their solution will become clearer, and America will race on to the golden goal of peace and plenty and greater human happiness.—Contributed. FARM LEADER WARNS AGAINST CLASS HATRED BERKELEY, Feb. 4.—Better understanding of the relationship between agricultural. workers and farof existing abuses handicapping both groups owill do. much in solving some of the farm labor problems and in eliminating unwarranted class hatred between farmers and workers now promioted by agitators.This statement was made today by Alex Johnson, secretary treasurer. of the California Farm Bureau Federation, in calling attention of Farm Bureau officials and leaders throughout the state to the problems faced by the agricultural industry and by . “Tt is evident,’’ he said, . “that some persons, who are devoting their drive on the magnifying of o¢easional abuses rather than-on suggestions for their solution and correction. “Tniess a better understanding of these problems is reached, however class his agitated hatred will or eontinue to spread until a dangerous situation At points out, develops.’’ Mr. throughout the same time, Johnson farmers the state are bitter in their denunciations of the San Francisco and Paficie Coast maritime strike, and are demanding its immediate settlement before additional damage accrues to them and other innocent groups. What would labor say, farm leaders ask, if farmers went on a hundred-day strike and refused to sell or ship farm products? What would be the attitude of labor toward agriculture if striking farmers cut off food supplies, farm leaders ask? Yet this.is exactly what the maritime strike -has done to.California agriculture in eutting off its transportation and warehousing facilittime to organizing farm workers, . ies and in causing it to lose many of are building up an Gn Warrantad its important markets, Farm Bureau lass ‘hatred, concentrating their, officials point out. oe a ata A RT OS aR Ee TT A a Se SRE Psat SE ' The studio that satisfies. . . 107 Mill St. Good photos at reasonable prices—no guess work. 68hour Kodak. finishing _ serA vice. are taking twice as much timber as Insects Threaten Lumber Industry (By ‘HAROLD M., FINLEY) The Bureau of Entomology, ii should be understood, is not taking part in the movement launched by the California State Chamber of Commerce to obtain an annual Federal appropriation for a thorough study of the insect menace fn California’s forests. The bureau can be counted on to make good use of such a fund if it is obtained, but the enlarged program is strictly a chamber project. Federal bugologists have amassed a lot of information on forest insect damage considering the financiai handicap under which they have labored, and when I was assigned Tecently to “cover”? an area of barkbeetle depredation, accompanied by one of the chamber executives, arrangements were made with the bitreau’s Berkeley office to. have an expert go along to explain things. That is the only way in which the bureau itself figures in this a'ccount. THREAT IN EVIDENCE We traversed a large forest area in the northeastern part of the state up.to the Oregon line. We saw evidenees of forest destruction that threatens, if not checked, to wipe out California’s lumber industry and leave areas ghastly wildernesses of dead spars and decaying logs. We had an opportunity to see what the bureau records oi loss mean in terms of actual devastation: These records tell a story that ts calculated to arouse not only Californians, but people throughout the west. APPALLING SITUATION The bureau studies have covered only about one-fifth of the state’s 7,000,000 acres of commercial pine; intensive only in spots, s ituahave been but they revealzan appalling tion. Even before they started a cons servative federal entomogolist had estimated the annual. timber loss} from insect killings at 500,000,000/ board feet. It is known now that the toll js} closer to a billion board -feet. There has been only one 1930, in the last twelve in which it as low as the early year, has been mate. 7 MOUNTING TOLL It amounted to 1,000,000.000 board feet in 1926, to 1.200,000,004 . 19314 The . total for the entire period has been . board -feet,. in 1927, to 1,250,000,000 in and to 1,500,000,060 in 1932. around 10,500,000,000 representing an average of 875,000,000 board feet of: good timber deyear by minute bugs, stroyed each boring and gnawing away in Califor-; nia’s pine stands. A couple of paragraphs guide showed us port our will to bring the.figures down to earth, } so the average person can grasp the} significance. PICFURE OF LOSSES In 1935, which with a 700,009,000 board foot loss could not be} called one of the worst years, the average mill of California’s 133 then cut about 10,250,000 of lumber according tc operating board Teet this. report. “The average. yearly payroll of those mills, exclusive of contract work,’ it says, “was $123,436. On that basis, insect losses would have kept fifty eight mills running for a year. The total additional pay roll without those losses would have amounted to $8,393,600. The value . of lumber that might have been pro-} duced from insect killed timber . would have been about $12,872,000, at the mill.”’ — BUGS HOLD LEAD And this: ‘‘During the from 1930 through 1935,-forest i sects destroyed 5,500,000,000 board feet. of timber. Fire destroyed 534,050,000 board feet. About 3,769.000,000 board feet of ponderosa and sugar pine was cut during the same period. The bugs, in .other words, got about 1,200,000,000 more board feet of California pine in those six years than was destroyed by fire and cui by the lumbermen. There have been years in which pine killing insects have accounted for more timber depletion than fires and all lumbering including that of redwood and other tree species relatively immune to insect damage. PROSPECTS PLAIN Tt can easily be seen what is going . to become of the 60,000,000,000, board feet of mature timber recently estimated to be standing in Ca in this very kind of drain continues. . fornia’s forests generation, if this More than timber has been destroyed by sects in a little over a decade. Our entomologist guide pointed out to us forest areas in which bugs alone one sixth that much inestiin a re-j serve . j i is being added by new tree growth. What the outright loss of 10,500,000,000 board feet of forest timber in twelve years réally means can perhaps best be illustrated for the reader in terms of building. HOME BUILDING GAUGE The average one family dwelling contains from 17,000 ‘to 20,000 feet of lumber: Put the amount at 25,000 feet, just to be consercative and we find that 35,000 dwellings might have been built each year of the twelve from material the bugs got. That makes a grand total of 420,000, homes, which, allowing four persons to a family, would house a population of over 1,690,000. No need setting forth other numerable uses for wood. C. C. Tague, president of the California Fruit Growers’ Exchange and a director of the State Chamber of Commeré¢e, pointed out recently that one serious aspect of the situation is the threat to the supply of lumber used in making boxes of ali kinds. Without economically produced boxes and crates for manufactured goods and farm produce, he deeclared, all.industry, business and agriculture will be placed under a great handicap. STANDS DEPLETED The great fruit irowers’ and shippers’ cooperative of which Mr. Teague is head has its own mill at Susanville in Northeastern California for the turning out. of shook for boxing. It: has seen -—-its own timbcr stands depleted by beetles. By the most conservative estimate Mr. Teague toir@ reilow-cnamber inmembers in urging that organization to take a\stand for effective government action in curbing forest insect depredations, California has in the last ten years suffered an actdal stumpage timber loss of $39,000,000 from this source, That was _putting the selling price of stumpage at $3 a thousand board feet, a depression time figure. Half California’s timber is privately owned he noted and the insect toll on land outside the public domain therefore represents a loss of taxable value. LOSS IN TAXATION “Monteary losses are increased many *times,’’ he said, “if we consider the value of all this material to communities and industries within the state. At a normal mill price of $20 for 1000 board feet, California has in a decade been deprived of taxable material having a value of $200,000,000.” As an object lesson to the American people and their representatives j in Congress California’s costly experience with forest insects is to all intents and purposes that of *.the west as a whole. ONE ILLUSTRATION One kind of bug alone, the western pine beetle, just to cite an illustration, killed 2,250,000,000 feet of ponderosa or western yellow pine in Southern and Central Oregon in the ten years ending in 1933. Authority for that statement is the Forestry Service report of that year, already quoted. Figures like that, relating to various sections of the west, could be strung out indefinitely. The story of California, however, clearly indicates what is happening in, and to, the nation’s last great timber reservoir —the Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain areas—and shows why the California State Chamber of Commerce is so determined to start the. ball to rolling for an extended Federal program designed to solve the problem. BILL KIRKHAM AT ST. MARY’S IS EDITOR AID A Nevada City youth, William Kirkham, son of Mrs. R. L. Kirkham, 424 Cross street, was appointed associate science editor of Tha Collegian, Saint Mary’s College stydent newspaper, recently. Kirkham a sophomore at Mary’s, has been regular reporte; on the paper for the last two years, His new appointment ealls for regular interviews with faculty members and visiting celebrities. HOTEL CLUNIE 8th and K Streets Sacramento Saine $1.50 to $2.50 per day deletion CLUB RENDEZVOUS COCKTAIL BAR AND COFFEE SHOP MODERATE PRICES QUICK SERVICE Breakfast: ..:.-.-25¢e, 40c, 50c. Luncheon. ...-.45c and 50c Dinner ..:. 65c, 75c and $1.60 eer Open All Night } February Month of melting snows and hints of Spring. Month of mammoth clearances and big business. February promises much in the way of profits for the alert merchant—and the February issue of Chicago Tribune Service brings you the ideal means for attracting that business. It’s waiting in our office for you—by all means see it soon. Nevada City COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA :

* mers, and corrections Jabor. # ; ‘ as Grass Valley bs . DProreerarrer 1 NEVADA CITY NUGGET oe FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1937. Nevada City Nugget 305 Broad Street. Phone 36 A Legal Newspaper, as defined by statute. Printed and Published at Nevada City. Neen hese ntesie te seale H. M. LEETE Eddtor and Publisher 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year (In Advance) ¢ Bee ent atengesteateete ate ate tease tentententeateeatentesteateotestentestestesteaestesteatestestententestestestesteesteeiestesteesteodesiestes Published Semi-Weekly, Monday and Friday at Nevada City, California, and entered matter of the second class in the postoffice at % Nevada City, under Act of Congress, March 3, a as mail Strikes And Our Future Those who can see beyond the immediate turmoil of labor strife in this country realize that the whole future of democracy depends on the ability of labor, capital, and the government to solve the problem reasonably soon. Today the rights, responsibilities and powers of the three parties involved are hopelessly ample, the constitutionality of question. In Britain, these rights obscure and tangled. For exthe Wagner Labor Act is in and responsibilities have been clearly established for many years. And in Britain, they don't have strikes of any consequence. Yet Britain remains a democracy. How have they done it? Organization of workers is & far more general, and far more generally accepted than in the United States. The right to strike is staunchly upheld. But there is a distinct line drawiu between legal and illegal strikes and lockouts. Most trade unions are “registered” voluntarily in a manner that would amount to incorporation in the United States. The real key to their success, however, seems too be this. No compulsory arbitration is provided, but.many industries have permanent conciliation boards which adjust most disputes before they reach the strike stage; and if they have not. the government will provide one. Perhaps we ought not to copy Britain's solution in detail, since we need an American system based on American conditions. But at least we might get some ideas for our solution through a study of the British way.—Contributed. "Do Unto Others” . The swift, generous and effective response of the whole nation to the call for help from flood-ravaged Ohio and Mississippi valleys has demonstrated a great and fundamental! truth about this country of ours. When the course to be followed is clear and the need is urgent, we can work together, men, and with a willingness to with sympathy for our fellow make sacrifices for them. And our democracy, often chided by dictators as inefficient, can act with lightning-lige effectiveness. First to move in to the scene of the mightiest flood ever to strike this nation was, as always, the ever alert Red Cross. They broadcast a plea for funds. People in California, in Texas and in Maine—people who had nothing to gain personallv and may have had little themselves, understood the suffering and opened their purse strings. Even a member of the American family of so-called “soulless corporations’ sacrificed what a really soulless industry would have claimed, when the railroads volunteered their services free to haul relief supplies, food, clothing, medicines, tents, cots and blankets to the cold, hungry refugeees. On the very heels of the Red Cross, the U. S. Government moved in, all its hastily mobilized facilities working smoothly and swiftly to rescue thousands marooned by the angry waters, to fight disease and havoc. No achievement is impossible for a nation capable of such a magnificent response. As we learn more and more of our problems, the road to their solution will become clearer, and America will race on to the golden goal of peace and plenty and greater human happiness.—Contributed. FARM LEADER WARNS AGAINST CLASS HATRED BERKELEY, Feb. 4.—Better understanding of the relationship between agricultural. workers and farof existing abuses handicapping both groups owill do. much in solving some of the farm labor problems and in eliminating unwarranted class hatred between farmers and workers now promioted by agitators.This statement was made today by Alex Johnson, secretary treasurer. of the California Farm Bureau Federation, in calling attention of Farm Bureau officials and leaders throughout the state to the problems faced by the agricultural industry and by . “Tt is evident,’’ he said, . “that some persons, who are devoting their drive on the magnifying of o¢easional abuses rather than-on suggestions for their solution and correction. “Tniess a better understanding of these problems is reached, however class his agitated hatred will or eontinue to spread until a dangerous situation At points out, develops.’’ Mr. throughout the same time, Johnson farmers the state are bitter in their denunciations of the San Francisco and Paficie Coast maritime strike, and are demanding its immediate settlement before additional damage accrues to them and other innocent groups. What would labor say, farm leaders ask, if farmers went on a hundred-day strike and refused to sell or ship farm products? What would be the attitude of labor toward agriculture if striking farmers cut off food supplies, farm leaders ask? Yet this.is exactly what the maritime strike -has done to.California agriculture in eutting off its transportation and warehousing facilittime to organizing farm workers, . ies and in causing it to lose many of are building up an Gn Warrantad its important markets, Farm Bureau lass ‘hatred, concentrating their, officials point out. oe a ata A RT OS aR Ee TT A a Se SRE Psat SE ' The studio that satisfies. . . 107 Mill St. Good photos at reasonable prices—no guess work. 68hour Kodak. finishing _ serA vice. are taking twice as much timber as Insects Threaten Lumber Industry (By ‘HAROLD M., FINLEY) The Bureau of Entomology, ii should be understood, is not taking part in the movement launched by the California State Chamber of Commerce to obtain an annual Federal appropriation for a thorough study of the insect menace fn California’s forests. The bureau can be counted on to make good use of such a fund if it is obtained, but the enlarged program is strictly a chamber project. Federal bugologists have amassed a lot of information on forest insect damage considering the financiai handicap under which they have labored, and when I was assigned Tecently to “cover”? an area of barkbeetle depredation, accompanied by one of the chamber executives, arrangements were made with the bitreau’s Berkeley office to. have an expert go along to explain things. That is the only way in which the bureau itself figures in this a'ccount. THREAT IN EVIDENCE We traversed a large forest area in the northeastern part of the state up.to the Oregon line. We saw evidenees of forest destruction that threatens, if not checked, to wipe out California’s lumber industry and leave areas ghastly wildernesses of dead spars and decaying logs. We had an opportunity to see what the bureau records oi loss mean in terms of actual devastation: These records tell a story that ts calculated to arouse not only Californians, but people throughout the west. APPALLING SITUATION The bureau studies have covered only about one-fifth of the state’s 7,000,000 acres of commercial pine; intensive only in spots, s ituahave been but they revealzan appalling tion. Even before they started a cons servative federal entomogolist had estimated the annual. timber loss} from insect killings at 500,000,000/ board feet. It is known now that the toll js} closer to a billion board -feet. There has been only one 1930, in the last twelve in which it as low as the early year, has been mate. 7 MOUNTING TOLL It amounted to 1,000,000.000 board feet in 1926, to 1.200,000,004 .

19314 The . total for the entire period has been . board -feet,. in 1927, to 1,250,000,000 in and to 1,500,000,060 in 1932. around 10,500,000,000 representing an average of 875,000,000 board feet of: good timber deyear by minute bugs, stroyed each boring and gnawing away in Califor-; nia’s pine stands. A couple of paragraphs guide showed us port our will to bring the.figures down to earth, } so the average person can grasp the} significance. PICFURE OF LOSSES In 1935, which with a 700,009,000 board foot loss could not be} called one of the worst years, the average mill of California’s 133 then cut about 10,250,000 of lumber according tc operating board Teet this. report. “The average. yearly payroll of those mills, exclusive of contract work,’ it says, “was $123,436. On that basis, insect losses would have kept fifty eight mills running for a year. The total additional pay roll without those losses would have amounted to $8,393,600. The value . of lumber that might have been pro-} duced from insect killed timber . would have been about $12,872,000, at the mill.”’ — BUGS HOLD LEAD And this: ‘‘During the from 1930 through 1935,-forest i sects destroyed 5,500,000,000 board feet. of timber. Fire destroyed 534,050,000 board feet. About 3,769.000,000 board feet of ponderosa and sugar pine was cut during the same period. The bugs, in .other words, got about 1,200,000,000 more board feet of California pine in those six years than was destroyed by fire and cui by the lumbermen. There have been years in which pine killing insects have accounted for more timber depletion than fires and all lumbering including that of redwood and other tree species relatively immune to insect damage. PROSPECTS PLAIN Tt can easily be seen what is going . to become of the 60,000,000,000, board feet of mature timber recently estimated to be standing in Ca in this very kind of drain continues. . fornia’s forests generation, if this More than timber has been destroyed by sects in a little over a decade. Our entomologist guide pointed out to us forest areas in which bugs alone one sixth that much inestiin a re-j serve . j i is being added by new tree growth. What the outright loss of 10,500,000,000 board feet of forest timber in twelve years réally means can perhaps best be illustrated for the reader in terms of building. HOME BUILDING GAUGE The average one family dwelling contains from 17,000 ‘to 20,000 feet of lumber: Put the amount at 25,000 feet, just to be consercative and we find that 35,000 dwellings might have been built each year of the twelve from material the bugs got. That makes a grand total of 420,000, homes, which, allowing four persons to a family, would house a population of over 1,690,000. No need setting forth other numerable uses for wood. C. C. Tague, president of the California Fruit Growers’ Exchange and a director of the State Chamber of Commeré¢e, pointed out recently that one serious aspect of the situation is the threat to the supply of lumber used in making boxes of ali kinds. Without economically produced boxes and crates for manufactured goods and farm produce, he deeclared, all.industry, business and agriculture will be placed under a great handicap. STANDS DEPLETED The great fruit irowers’ and shippers’ cooperative of which Mr. Teague is head has its own mill at Susanville in Northeastern California for the turning out. of shook for boxing. It: has seen -—-its own timbcr stands depleted by beetles. By the most conservative estimate Mr. Teague toir@ reilow-cnamber inmembers in urging that organization to take a\stand for effective government action in curbing forest insect depredations, California has in the last ten years suffered an actdal stumpage timber loss of $39,000,000 from this source, That was _putting the selling price of stumpage at $3 a thousand board feet, a depression time figure. Half California’s timber is privately owned he noted and the insect toll on land outside the public domain therefore represents a loss of taxable value. LOSS IN TAXATION “Monteary losses are increased many *times,’’ he said, “if we consider the value of all this material to communities and industries within the state. At a normal mill price of $20 for 1000 board feet, California has in a decade been deprived of taxable material having a value of $200,000,000.” As an object lesson to the American people and their representatives j in Congress California’s costly experience with forest insects is to all intents and purposes that of *.the west as a whole. ONE ILLUSTRATION One kind of bug alone, the western pine beetle, just to cite an illustration, killed 2,250,000,000 feet of ponderosa or western yellow pine in Southern and Central Oregon in the ten years ending in 1933. Authority for that statement is the Forestry Service report of that year, already quoted. Figures like that, relating to various sections of the west, could be strung out indefinitely. The story of California, however, clearly indicates what is happening in, and to, the nation’s last great timber reservoir —the Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain areas—and shows why the California State Chamber of Commerce is so determined to start the. ball to rolling for an extended Federal program designed to solve the problem. BILL KIRKHAM AT ST. MARY’S IS EDITOR AID A Nevada City youth, William Kirkham, son of Mrs. R. L. Kirkham, 424 Cross street, was appointed associate science editor of Tha Collegian, Saint Mary’s College stydent newspaper, recently. Kirkham a sophomore at Mary’s, has been regular reporte; on the paper for the last two years, His new appointment ealls for regular interviews with faculty members and visiting celebrities. HOTEL CLUNIE 8th and K Streets Sacramento Saine $1.50 to $2.50 per day deletion CLUB RENDEZVOUS COCKTAIL BAR AND COFFEE SHOP MODERATE PRICES QUICK SERVICE Breakfast: ...:..-..-25¢e, 40c, 50c. Luncheon. ......-.45c and 50c Dinner ....:.. 65c, 75c and $1.60 eer Open All Night } February Month of melting snows and hints of Spring. Month of mammoth clearances and big business. February promises much in the way of profits for the alert merchant—and the February issue of Chicago Tribune Service brings you the ideal means for attracting that business. It’s waiting in our office for you—by all means see it soon. Nevada City COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA :