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February 6, 1941 (6 pages)

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EN rephrase Stk RIS a A ae Mey a I ge a OT a NFVADA CITY NUGGET THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1941 PAGE TWO co Nevada City Nugget 305 Broad Street. Phone 36. A Legal Newspaper, as defined by statute. Printed and Published at Nevada City. H. M. LEETE os Editor and Publisher Published Semi-Weekly, Monday and Thursday a: Nevada City, California, and entered as mail matter of the second class in the postoffice at Nicvada City under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year (In Advance) re . A Western Justice Californiaand the west have no representation on the -U. S: supreme court despite pleas each time there is a vacancy that recognition be given to this section of the country. The nine members of the court, including Associate Justice James Clark Reynolds, all are from states east of the Rockies and with one exception from east of the Mississippi. Nearest approach to a westerner on the court is Justice William Orville Douglas, who was born in Minnesota and studied law in. Walla Walla, Washington. Chief Justice Hughes, who is reported ready to resign soon, is from New York, as is Justice Harlan F. Stone. Justice Owen J. Roberts is a Pennsylvanian. Justice Hugo Lafayette Black is an Alabaman. Justice Stanley Forman Reed is a Kentuckian, Justice Felix Frankfurter is from Massachusetts though born in Austria. Justice Frank Murphy is from Michian. : More than half of the geographical area of the United States Kas no justice of its own on the court. No one on the court has first-hand knowledge of the many problems confronting the people in this vast expanse of territory. This lack of familiarity might have a strong influence on decisions in litigation arising in the many states that are not represented. The view point of a westerner would be most helpful in interpreting the laws adopted by congress, or in deciding appeals from the grain, cattle, gold-bearing and mountainous areas. The first appeal to President Roosevelt from official Washington was to name Senator James F. Byrnes of South Carolina to the supreme court. Byrne§ has been one of the administration’s stalwarts in congress and has the backing of his Democratic colleagues. If chosen, he would be confirmed more or less unanimously as a matter of senatorial courtesy. If Byrnes should be appointed, the west again would be ignored, though in this area are many legal lights fully as qualified to sit on the highest court and who are of the same party as the president. Politics will control the appointment, as it usually does when one of the nation’s most important vacancies is to be filled. Many from all over the country will aspire for the job, including higher court judges in California and other states west of the Mississippi. But politics shouldn't influence the selecton of a supreme court justice. The best qualified man, with due allowance for geographical location, ought to be . selected. The place to find such a qualified appointee is one of the federal benches, or the federal court of appeals. Friendship and political expediency have been followed by President Roosevelt in making his previous five supreme court appointments. In the sixth he can very well seek the man, preferably one from the sunset side of the nation. An Encouraging Note Striking an encouraging note in the world unrest today has been the extended work of the Boy Scouts of America, the world’s largest youth organization. The men and boys registered in this federally-chartered group have pledged themselves to follow a program of strengthening and invigorating democracy in the United States. A nine-point program stressing self-reliance and ability to react in times of emergency has been-undertaken by more than a million and-a half members of the Boy Scout movement. These twelve to sixteen year old boys, under the leadership of volunteer adult workers, are “learning by doing.” Faced with practical situations demanding instantaneous and intelligent reactions these boys are receiving valuable training for emergency crises. In this preparation to act the Boy Scouts have pledged themselves to be ‘‘united with all lovers of freedom, whatever their tongue or origin. To keep our nation strong in valor and confident in freedom, so that the government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.”’ To this end the 47,000 Scout units throughout the country have made a roll call of their entire membership to isolate weak spots in local organizations. Troops have taken stock of themselves in order that they might organize emergency service corps in local communities, prepared to act when danger of any kind threatens. These efforts hearten sincere and worried. Americans who view the future with fear for this country’s. inherent rights and values. They are in keeping with the long service record of the Boy Scouts of America. Floods, storms, and fires have seen these khaki-clad youths in immediate action. New England and Florida still recovering from the hurricanes and floods of 1938 remember the Boy Scout work with appreciation. Older folks can remember them at work in war times. During the World War. over 400,000,000 dollars worth of Liberty Loan subscriptions were sold by Boy Scouts. Forty-three million dollars worth of War Savings Stamps were distributed by these “107. mm street’ Nevada County Photo Center ‘PHONE 67 . Portraits, Commercial Photography, PN. 5 8 Hour Kodak Finishing, Old Coptes, orocnaprer:.__.-Enlarging and: Framing, De ote “Kodaks and Photo Supplies, Grass Valley _. Movie Cameras and Films THE VOICE OF HISTORY . . . i EN . ee GOVERNMENT : gun q . OF THE PEOPLE, ne FOR THE PEOPLE, ait! tN.. PY ats Naw pte . . , AND BY THE PEOPLE} . SHALL NOT PERISH . ) 1}) FROM THE . EARTH. . Jura Wonnerin . \ . wonder why when some men climb To dizzy heights that scrape the sky, They feel a primitive desire To hop right off and fly. And there are also those who climb And reach the top of fame’s high hill, Who soon come.tumbling down again, Like Jack and Jill. I wonder at this strange impulse to jump off which is felt by some people when standing upon a height and looking down into the depths below them. Does it indicate that some of our pre-historic ancestors were winged creatures, and that inherited instincts impel us under given circumstances? There are also those to whom success, fame and fortune, especially when suddenly attained, prove to be dizzy heights, upon which they become light headed, smug, egotistical and erratic. We have seen this happen to American celeberities—. a sorry sight, indeed. I wonder if we, the American public, are to blame for many painful cases of inflated ego. We are incurable hero worshippers and we hail heroes and near heroes, with equal enthusiasm.. and when some one performs a stunt, we literally go mad with excitement, tear up telephone books, stage riots. To most of us, the stunt is ‘the thing. We seldom ask. ‘what good does it do?” If it is collosal, thrilling and highly entertaining, we raise a shout and go out of bounds. Some years‘ago, we were swept off balance by those who swam chartnels or other wide bodies of water. This stunt involved no special risk to the stunter—a stout boatkept pace with his every stroke and in it were friends ready to. serve refreshments when needed; if he were overcome by fatigue or set . upon by cramps, they hauled him aboard and returned him isnominiously to disappointed thrill seekers upon the shore. If he succeeded in beaching himself sans aid, the entire civilized world went completely daft. . wonder why. Aviation had produced many a thrill prior to the first world war. When the holocaust was over, our young aviators came home, many of them wearing decorations which testified to their skill and courage under the most terrifying circumstances. They had made reconnoisance flights over enemy terrain, they had engaged in dog fights with dangerous and determined antagonists. These men were not stunters— they were real heroes—and as such, we welcomed ‘and acclaimed them. They had won our gratitude — our pride in them was fully justified. Yet, how many of them can you call by name today. Years passed, during which the science of aviation progressed by leaps and flights. . Then came the famous solo flight across the Atlantic. A stunt? Of course. The individual whom we overwhelmed and spoiled by excessive adulation, was not a super-man; he had no more intelligence, skill and nerve, than many other young aviators of that time. The craft he piloted cannot be given too much credit for his success, for later another man flew a pile of junk over the same route, with a degree of nonchalance which turned the whole affair into a gorgeous joke. The one element which made sure to the success of both adventures, was luck, and luck is the stuff from which successful stunts are made. Uncle Silas says: “The trouble with us is, we feed our stunters with such great portions of the bread of greatness, that they just can’t take it.”’ —A. MERRIAM CONNER. youngsters. Scouts under direction of national leaders located
over 2,500 carloads of standing walnut trees for defense authorities. Herbert Hoover, food administrator for the United States, complimented Scouts upon their efficient cultivation of war gardens and farms. These teen-age boys, directly aiding the government, delivered’ over thirty million pieces of literature. American democracy is in the spotlight today. While the ‘youth of the United States is being trained in a non-military fashion, not only to meet the exigencies of a war-time emergency; but:also to’‘meet the complexities of a peace-time existSIERRA COUNTY WILL OPERATE WITH YOUR ASSEMBLYMAN THURMAN . AT THE STATE CAPITOL We would like to discuss in detail some of the proposed measures which ; TS: may be of interest to the people of a County, recognizing the the Sixth Assembly District but that gnow sports advantages of the Bald will be impossible until we receive Mountain area in the Forest-Alleghthe printed bills, When we left Sac-. any district, will operate a caterpilrp ramento following the recess, but 350 of the 2564-bills introduced in. the assembly had been printed. Like. wise but a small number of the pills . introduced in the senate had been printed. In every session, there are numerous “freak” bills introduced. Last \ session there was the “sugar bowl” bill and this session there is the bill . to prohibit roosters from being kept within 200 feet of any dwelling in any city. Of course the ‘“‘freak’’ bills are in the minority. The many measures introduced are not necessarily new laws proposed but a large number of bills introduced are amendments to existing laws. There are many pills which have been introduced to amend the fish and game code, the labor code and other state codes. Of interest to gold mining, but four mining bills have been introduced, one in the lower house and three in the senate. The assembly Dill would requiré gold dredge operators to fill up their dredging holes upon the completion of their operations. Senate Bill 139, by Senator Fletcher, would require county recorders when requested, to furnish certified abstracts of title, showing instruments of record, required in proceedings to obtain patents to mineral lands of the United States. Senate Bill 845, by Senator Dillinger, relates to mining claims, tunnel locations and mill sites and the recording of notice of location etc. Senator Jesse Mayo has introduced a bill which will again permit the Division of Mines to handle the sale of their publications, At the present time, such publications are handled by the Bureau of Documents. Your assemblyman was co-author with Assemblyman Rodney. Turner of Kern County, on an _ assembly joint resolution memorializing Congress and th peresident of the United States to exempt all income from gold mining from all excess profit taxes, as was done under the Excess Profits Tax Law of 1917, The resolution passed both in the assembly and in the senate. Of interest to the sportsmen of the district, a total of 174 bills pertaining to fish and game have been introduced, 61 in the senate and 113 in the assembly. We will discuss some of these bills in a later article. EAMPTONVILLE NOTES CAMPTONVIILLE, Feb. 6.—Warren and Leland Pauly returned to Marysville Sunday, evening after spending the week end here at their home, Miss Roby Godfrey who suffered a. heart attack is confined at the Nevada City Sanitarium and is improving. ; Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Meggers returned Tuesday from a montlis absence spent in visiting ‘relatives in Nebraska and Wisconsin and touring: the southern states. Mrs. Margaret Colton left a few days ago for her home at Sacramento after spending a visit with her sister Mrs. Rachael Labadie at. the Hotel Francis, Hotel Francis for the past two years left a few days ago for the lower country. lar and sled each Sunday to transport skiers into the area, The cost of the eaterpillar and gled operation will come, from Sierra County’s budgeted advertising fund. Last Sunday was the first time the sled was in operation and approximately 150 were transported to Bald Mountain to participate in the snow sports. ~ Supervisor Guerdon Bilis of the Tahoe National Forest, one of those attending, said the Bald Mountain area is one of the most excellent skiing grounds in the state. Skiing in that section is especially good for those who desire to do their skiing over @ large area and to see new country. LOST—Female pointer. Answers to name of Queen. If found call Vic Gates. Reward. WANTED — 5 Gravel Mines Dredge work. The more yardage the better. Give me complete description and terms. Address, Box 313, Sonora, Calif. 2-32tp Home Cooked Lunches served all day at the Rainbow Inn, 127% Broad street. Soup, Salad, Entree, Bread. and Butter, Coffee or Pot of Tea. 26 cents. Try our Hamburgers and Chili Beans. FOR SALE—Cosy home, four rooms, bath, large yard. Close in. $1,100 terms. Phone 393-J. 12-1210tp LOLA MONTEZ HOUSE 248 Mill St., Grass Valley BOOKS for sale and for rent. Magazine subscriptions. Choice Christmas and Birthday cards. Swedish weaving. Antiques, China, old prints. furniture. 12-21moc MXPERT RADIO REPAIRING — Loud Speaker Systems for Rent 'r Sale. Authorized Philco Auto Radio Service. ART’S RADIO HOSPITAL —Specialists in Radio Ills, 11% . Mr. Kenyon who has been at the South Church Street, Grass Valley. Phone 984, 2-19tf WATCHES CLEANED, $1.00. Mainsprings, $1.00. Watch Chrystals, round, 25c, fancy, 50c. All work guaranteed. J. M, Bertsche, Watch ahd Clock repairing. With Ray’s Fixit Shop, New location, 109 West Main Street, Grass Valley. 12-1tf MERCHANDISE EXCHANGE Take a look at some of the bargains in\ used merchandise. Everything priced right. Buy, se!l and trade. 210 Main St., Phone 410. GENE MELTON. eich a! _future. ence, worried Americans may well relax. their fears for the ee Boulder Street Murphy’s Fine Finishes for all types of painting. LARGE SELECTIONS OF COLORS. Nevada County Lumber Company — “The Pioneer Lumber Yard” Phone 500 Nevada City Fs ssa RS ATER BH REIT LE ENNIS IES