June 7, 1940 (8 pages)

prising if the members _ whether or not he NEVADA CITY NUGGET FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1940. seaterfentefeateaeniesfesteneniesiesieeiers vada City Nugget 305 Broad Street. Phone 36. A Legal Newspaner, as defined by statute. Printed and Published y at Nevada City. Editor and Publisher H. M. LEETE st "eS Published Semi-Weekly. Monday and Friday at Nevada City. California, and entered as mafl matter of the second class in the postoffice at stort ofeate oleate seo Nevada City. under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. SUBSCRiPTION RATES One ‘year? Cin Advance yi. ea ak $2.50 2 2 ste a a a ae a eS . = Lawful Bue Still Silly =. (From the San Francisco Chronicle) Under the Constitution, says the United States Supreme Court, school children can be compelled by law to salute the Flag or be-barred from education in the public schools. The Court's function here was to declare the law, not to say whether the law is wise of foolish. It would not be surof the Court privately think, with a great many other Americans, that these Flag-saluting laws are silly. Can you make anyone patriotic with a club? Patriotism is in the heart. Can you detect a traitor by watching to see salutes? Traitors will be on the jump to salute. It would be far more sensible to forbid persons who detest the American Flag to salute it. Their salutes are insults to the Flag. The ineptness of the Flag-saluting ordinances is emphasized in the case of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the sect from which most, if not all of the current trials have arisen. With them there is no issue of subversive doctrine, it is purely a religious notion. They take literally ,as do Moslems, the commandment in the Bible, ‘Thou shalt not make’ * * any graven image, nor any likeness of anything that is in heaven * * or the earth * * or the water thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them.”’ It is not because it is the American F lag that they refuse . to salute; they will not salute any flag or any man-made em-. blem. They think their souls are in danger and, like Shadrach, Meschach and Abernego. they do not bow down. In this thei: children obey them and for this obedience to. their parents the voungsters can lawfully be barred from an education in the public schools. In the eyes of such laws it is better that these children be condemned to ignorance and illiteracy. Does that make them better citizens > This is lawful, for the Court says it does not contravene the Constitution, but that does not make it any the less silly. School boards that make no such rulings are to be commended. The Enemies Within The Gates Events in Europe have underlined and emphasized the urgent need for improving and expanding our national defenses, and making sure that the United States, its shores and its traditional ways of life, are rendered secure. To do this most effectively, our military experts are of course studying very closely the methods’ of the “‘total war’ that has overrun so many helpless countries abroad — the modern form of war that, as one observer has commented, is fought ‘‘with the morals of the cave and the weapons of an exquisite civilization.” You need to know the danger that faces your country before you can guard against it successfully. But there is one further step. The manner in which Norway and Poland and Belgium have been brought to their _knees was not exclusively based upon military power. Before a blow was struck, security was undermined from within. The advice of Goethe —‘‘Divide and command’? — was heeded with telling and destructive effect. The “fifth column” of traitors and imported agents did their destructive work before war even began. : The danger that these tactics will be repeated here also faces our own land. It is not enough to have military preparedness; we must also establish internal unity, internal security. To achieve this aim, certain principles need to be kept in mind: . ~ (1) We must guard—not in a mood of\hysteria, but through sound common sense—against the misguided groups and individuals in our own country who do not believe in private enterprise, and would-sacrifice it for some other way of life. It is they who, by word or-deed, would fill the role of “fifth columnists” in America if the opportunity were ever offered. ~ (2) We must not let the erroneous thinking of a second group to muddle our thoughts on preparedness. This group does not recognize the inseparability of our various freedoms—freedom of speech, a government of representative democracy, and a business system of private enterprise —and its failure to appreciate this important truth is likely to} be actually as dangerous as the attitude of the deliberate enemies of our way of life. (3) We need, at a time when industrial efficiency is so vital to national defense, to guard against attempts to cripple and hobble our manufacturing enterprises. The La Follette bill recently introduced in Congress, a piece of legislation that would prevent manufacturers from guarding effectively ~ against sabotage and subversive activities within America’s °€ 107 mm street Nevada County Photo Center mY PHONE 67 Portraits, Commercial Photography, ih a 8 Hour Kodak Finishing, Old Copies, _ d Prorcenapres Enlarging and Framing, Z i : Kodaks and Photo Supplies, Grass Valley Movie Cameras and Films SAME OLD“CURE” OH, YEAH? IVE TAKEN THAT DOPE FOR OVER SEVEN YEARS AND 1M AS BIG AS EVER, ITS WONDERFUL REDUCING MEDICINE! plants, is a dangerous example of this type. With these principles in mind, and with the courageous maintenance of ‘national unity and individual patriotism, America can guard against the ‘‘enemies within the gates.’’ Without this stand, America invites disaster !—Contributed. . @ Jurr Wonner-nn — J I wonder where on land or sea The village smithy stands; By Nebo’s lonely hill perchance, Or India’s coral strands? And where are all the horses now The smithy used to shoe? I sought for facts, and then one day, I met the man who knew. I wonder if you remember those days, now some years past, when you used to stand up in school and recite The Villige Blacksmith. It was, no doubt upon a Friday afternoon, when. besides your schoolmates there assembled, were parents, school trustees.and upon special occasions, the school superintendent, of whom you stood greatly in awe and before whom you were determined to do your very best when it came your turn to recite. And now in these modern days of your maturity, how long has it been since you have visited-a~blacksmith~shop; watched the smith at his work and wondered how he could drive nails right into a horse’s hoof without hurting the poor beastie? ' Now we.had heard rumors also authentic information, and so one bright spring morning, we drove out through our wildwood gate and followed the winding mountain grade to Nevada City, from that historic town, a short cut led us to the town of Rough and Ready—do you remember the.town and how, in its virile, flaming youth, it “riz right up’’ and seceded from the Union, declared itself to be the “free and independent State of Rough and Ready.” It had its day of freedom from all restraint and then returned to the fold to live at peace with Uncle Sam forever after. That is the story, in the words of Mr. Ripley, ‘‘believe it or not.” Well, here in Rough and Ready and with no_ chestnut tree in sight, the village smithy stands. It stands beside the highway, and there one finds the smithy, a grandson of the original founder, shoejng horses and doing other smithy tasks in just the same old way. The shop, with part of the original structure still standing, was erected in the early fifties, the first anvil used by its founder is shown with pride to interested visitors, it came originally from England and was probably shipped around the Horn. In this old building are many other relics of olden days, among them;.a plow of the vintage of fifty-two. I wished a souvenir of our pleasant visit to the village smithy, and the friendly and courteous smith found the shoe of an oxen which he ‘placed in my hands, and then, . spoke out of turn. . “Is this half a shoe?” I inquired, my words were greeted by masculine laughter, you see, . had forgotten that the lowly ox, like the celebrated Pan, had cloven hoofs. It is so very easy to conceal one’s ignorance by keeping silence upon certain occasions. . should have remembered that important fact. Uncle Silas says: ‘‘After comparing the horrors of Dante’s Inferno with the reign of unleashed human fiendishness now obtaining in Europe. I’ve decided that Dante was woefully lacking in imagination.” —. MERRIAM CONNER. their country, and the biograph-. ers of the nation’s heroes and great. It is like the love of beauty and truth and, indeed, is allied to them. And when the child, becoma man, beholds the flag flying, its glorious colors shining in the sun, involuntarily his--heart sings a hymn, and his hand salutes it. THINKING OUT LOUD (Continued From Page One) the flag is the symbol, to be sure, but only a symbol. The (Cross is the symbol of Christianity, the Chescent of Mohammed‘s philosophy and way of life. But in a true sense, neither the Cross or the Crescent express: their respective religions, and likewise the Flag does not express patriotism. Patriotism is fundamental in all right LETTER SHAMES MOBILE, Ala. (UP) — It’s only nine miles from Mobile’s city hall to SNAIL relations of life and of govern. its school board headquarters—but ment, it embraces the ideals -of . it took a letter one year, one month America and its relations with . and four days to make the trp, The letter was from Mayor Charles Baumhauer offering the school board a chance to -get sidewalkpaving at a price of 35 cents a lineal foot. —other nations. Children draw it in with their breath at the family fireside. They are embued with it by reading the inspiring history of Politically Speaking By JOHN’ W. DUNLAP United Press Staff Correspondent SACRAMENTO, June 6.—(UP)— The long awaited final figures on May 7 presidential primary gave Mrs. Frank Deering of San Francisco and Patrick William McDonough of Oakland whatever honor there is in having. a half-vote each on the Roosevelt third term delegation. Mrs. (‘Deering and McDonough scored the highest voting totals on! the Garner ticket, hence were entitled to join the] Roosevelt delega-. tion in the vacancies left by Lt. Gov. Ellis E. Patterson . and William Gibbs . McAdee. Being delegates at large, they split one vote between them, When there is a por : long list of names John W. Dunlap. on a ballot, those at the top invariably get the most votes. Mrs. Deering, was No. 1 on the alphabetical list but McDonough, No. 4, passed up two women ahead of him by a narrow margin. There had been some speculation (Culbert Olson would & ahs, where Gov. land, in view of the recall campaign, against him. He was listed No. 5 in alphabetical order but ran second only toi. B: Dockweiler, the former national committeeman who was first on the ballot. Willis Allen was first on the ham and egg ticket and also the leader of his movement, so he surprised no one by leading his group in votes. As for Patterson, he was tied for second in votes although 38th in order on the ballot. : Bradford Melcin, state Republican chairman, got 538,112 in his first place spot on the ballot. The breakdown on the four Democratic tcikets gave Dockwelier (Roosevelt) 723,782; Mrs. Deering (Garner), 114,594; Allen (ham and eggs), 90,718 and Mrs. Fay E, Allen (left-wing), 48,337. The Democratic delegation nearly had a rift over plans for, embarking for the ‘Chicago convention in July. One faction wanted the California delegation to join with Washington { . semblyman. He courted the ham and . eggs votes for election to lieutenant The. ssue apparently was settledwhen State Chairman Paul Peek issued invitations to Washizgton, Oregon and Nevada democratic leaders to join with the Californians at the world’s fair July 9 and leave for the east the following morning. Peek said the western delegations easily could connect with groups from Utah and Idaho Salt Lake City and other delegations in Denver and Omaha enroute. in The shifting political philosophy of Lieut. Gov. Patterson has him back on the Roosevelt bandwagon now (or at the hour when this was written). Patterson has been hopping around so much it’s hard to say at any particular time just where he stands. Patterson was a Republican as late of 1935, then Switched “to the Democrats for reelection as an esgovernor in 1938, then switched off to a $6.0 per month pension plan. When the primaries rolled around, Patterson joined the Roosevelt ‘‘harmony” slate, then bolted to form his own left-wing liberal ticket which ran ingtoriously last. Part of his campaign was a denunciation of the . president and his foreign policy, . hence the eyebrow raising when Patterson glibly about-faced and came out for Roosevelt again. “T’ve got to. stick with the Democrats; I can’t go with the Republicans, ‘and I’m certainly not for Earl . Browder,’ he said, Then he smiled and added that he might switch back to the G. O. P. “if the ‘Democrats keep getting reactionary.”’ xe Patterson privately admits that Senator Hiram Johnsow leading both the Republican -and Democrats races although Patterson intends to further his own battle for the senatorship by attacking . the Johnson act, drawn by the veteran senator. This act prohibits credits to coun. tries who are in default: on their . debts from the last world war. Patterson summed up his foreign ideas by urging all possible aid to the allies short of declaration of war on opposing: belligerents, and advocating seizure by the United States of all islands in the western hemiis and Oregon on Treasure Island prior; sphere owned by present belligerto entertaining east. A southern fac-}. ents ‘‘to prevent their bein u-e7 as tionhad.thought—ofan--Arrowhead-+-bases for-an-attaek await *h® MniSprings blowout instead of Treasure! ted States in the event of 1 Go nan Island. ~ VACtOry. < BUICK HEADQUARTERS by ~~ JamES PRESTON A tremendous issue is arising in. Washington to concern Americans who want. to protect their country from any aggressor. It is this: Who shall guide America’s rearmament? Everyone agrees that the nation must build up its defenses. Nearly everyone agrees that nobody is in a! better position than the Army and ‘Navy to determine what the country needs. closely studied developments abroad. They certainly are in a better position than politicians or average laymen to decide what guns: and shells and airplanes and ships the country should have. The big, unanswered question however, is who shall direct the production of all this equipment. Present plans apparently are to leave control of this in the hands of government officials. e: These officials are to be ‘‘advised’’ by experts in such fields as manufacturing, transportation, finance, and so on. The problem now is to what extent are these officials equipped for . the job before them, and if they are not so equipped, to what extent will the listen to sound advice. To illustrate:° Secretary Morgenthau has taken the lead in government efforts to speed the airplane and machine tool industries. Morgenthau has never had an experience in manufacturing airplanes and machine tools He is an up state New York farmer who specializes in berries. Secretary Hopkins of the Commerce Department says the nation must get what it wants when it wants it for defense. He is right, say most people. ‘But many persons in and out of Washington are asking what he knows :about the best way to help the nation get what it wants. He was a. social worker until he. took over expenditure of federal relief funds. He has never had any personal experience in the field of manufacturing or commerce, Labor strife, Washington talk reminds, can hamstring national defense. Yet under the present plans operations in the labor field would be in the handsof the LaborDepartThese military experts have! REMODELED, IMPROVED Paul Viles, Buick distributor for ‘Nevada and_ Sierra counties, has completed renovating and remodeling his headquarters, garage and display rooms in Hills Flat. He has now paved a wide section of the property out to the sidewalk line, re. moved the gas pumps to a shady spot under the marquee, and expects to erect a huge awning along the entire . front of his building. ment and the Labor Board. Secretary er, Perkins, another social workknows nothing from personal exper-ence of problems which the manufacturer and producer must solve. Of the Labor Board’s members, only one has had any personal contact with the problems of employers. He Once was. personnel man for a big department store, But neither he nor his. colleagues has ever worked in a factory to know how employees and employers feel, In short, as an increasing number of People are beginning to see it, the question is whether college professors, social workers and gentlemen farmers are in a position to figure out how and\when shell cases shall be made, Or, should ‘he men who will be ordered to produce these Shell cases have somethin to sa about: it? \ : _ There is talk about “standardizing” various industries, such ag airPlanes and airplane engines, so that defense necessities may ‘be turned out by the thousands, Even some folks, in Washington are wondering whe: ther the way to do this standardizing can be decided best by politicial appointees or by men .under whose guidance American’ Senius has developed production methods -which, for example, give us thebest and least expensive automobiles in the world. At tie beginning of the World War scare, some Washington visionaries though they could just ‘issue orders and things would be done the way they said it. It cost America billions to find out they were wrong. And the lesson cost dearly in time too. America this time should be smart enough to avoid anything that will bog down its national defense» program.

prising if the members _ whether or not he NEVADA CITY NUGGET FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1940. seaterfentefeateaeniesfesteneniesiesieeiers vada City Nugget 305 Broad Street. Phone 36. A Legal Newspaner, as defined by statute. Printed and Published y at Nevada City. Editor and Publisher H. M. LEETE st "eS Published Semi-Weekly. Monday and Friday at Nevada City. California, and entered as mafl matter of the second class in the postoffice at stort ofeate oleate seo Nevada City. under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. SUBSCRiPTION RATES One ‘year? Cin Advance yi. ea ak $2.50 2 2 ste a a a ae a eS . = Lawful Bue Still Silly =. (From the San Francisco Chronicle) Under the Constitution, says the United States Supreme Court, school children can be compelled by law to salute the Flag or be-barred from education in the public schools. The Court's function here was to declare the law, not to say whether the law is wise of foolish. It would not be surof the Court privately think, with a great many other Americans, that these Flag-saluting laws are silly. Can you make anyone patriotic with a club? Patriotism is in the heart. Can you detect a traitor by watching to see salutes? Traitors will be on the jump to salute. It would be far more sensible to forbid persons who detest the American Flag to salute it. Their salutes are insults to the Flag. The ineptness of the Flag-saluting ordinances is emphasized in the case of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the sect from which most, if not all of the current trials have arisen. With them there is no issue of subversive doctrine, it is purely a religious notion. They take literally ,as do Moslems, the commandment in the Bible, ‘Thou shalt not make’ * * any graven image, nor any likeness of anything that is in heaven * * or the earth * * or the water thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them.”’ It is not because it is the American F lag that they refuse . to salute; they will not salute any flag or any man-made em-. blem. They think their souls are in danger and, like Shadrach, Meschach and Abernego. they do not bow down. In this thei: children obey them and for this obedience to. their parents the voungsters can lawfully be barred from an education in the public schools. In the eyes of such laws it is better that these children be condemned to ignorance and illiteracy. Does that make them better citizens > This is lawful, for the Court says it does not contravene the Constitution, but that does not make it any the less silly. School boards that make no such rulings are to be commended. The Enemies Within The Gates Events in Europe have underlined and emphasized the urgent need for improving and expanding our national defenses, and making sure that the United States, its shores and its traditional ways of life, are rendered secure. To do this most effectively, our military experts are of course studying very closely the methods’ of the “‘total war’ that has overrun so many helpless countries abroad — the modern form of war that, as one observer has commented, is fought ‘‘with the morals of the cave and the weapons of an exquisite civilization.” You need to know the danger that faces your country before you can guard against it successfully. But there is one further step. The manner in which Norway and Poland and Belgium have been brought to their _knees was not exclusively based upon military power. Before a blow was struck, security was undermined from within. The advice of Goethe —‘‘Divide and command’? — was heeded with telling and destructive effect. The “fifth column” of traitors and imported agents did their destructive work before war even began. : The danger that these tactics will be repeated here also faces our own land. It is not enough to have military preparedness; we must also establish internal unity, internal security. To achieve this aim, certain principles need to be kept in mind: . ~ (1) We must guard—not in a mood of\hysteria, but through sound common sense—against the misguided groups and individuals in our own country who do not believe in private enterprise, and would-sacrifice it for some other way of life. It is they who, by word or-deed, would fill the role of “fifth columnists” in America if the opportunity were ever offered. ~ (2) We must not let the erroneous thinking of a second group to muddle our thoughts on preparedness. This group does not recognize the inseparability of our various freedoms—freedom of speech, a government of representative democracy, and a business system of private enterprise —and its failure to appreciate this important truth is likely to} be actually as dangerous as the attitude of the deliberate enemies of our way of life. (3) We need, at a time when industrial efficiency is so vital to national defense, to guard against attempts to cripple and hobble our manufacturing enterprises. The La Follette bill recently introduced in Congress, a piece of legislation that would prevent manufacturers from guarding effectively ~ against sabotage and subversive activities within America’s °€ 107 mm street Nevada County Photo Center mY PHONE 67 Portraits, Commercial Photography, ih a 8 Hour Kodak Finishing, Old Copies, _ d Prorcenapres Enlarging and Framing, Z i : Kodaks and Photo Supplies, Grass Valley Movie Cameras and Films SAME OLD“CURE” OH, YEAH? IVE TAKEN THAT DOPE FOR OVER SEVEN YEARS AND 1M AS BIG AS EVER, ITS WONDERFUL REDUCING MEDICINE! plants, is a dangerous example of this type. With these principles in mind, and with the courageous maintenance of ‘national unity and individual patriotism, America can guard against the ‘‘enemies within the gates.’’ Without this stand, America invites disaster !—Contributed. . @ Jurr Wonner-nn — J I wonder where on land or sea The village smithy stands; By Nebo’s lonely hill perchance, Or India’s coral strands? And where are all the horses now The smithy used to shoe? I sought for facts, and then one day, I met the man who knew. I wonder if you remember those days, now some years past, when you used to stand up in school and recite The Villige Blacksmith. It was, no doubt upon a Friday afternoon, when. besides your schoolmates there assembled, were parents, school trustees.and upon special occasions, the school superintendent, of whom you stood greatly in awe and before whom you were determined to do your very best when it came your turn to recite. And now in these modern days of your maturity, how long has it been since you have visited-a~blacksmith~shop; watched the smith at his work and wondered how he could drive nails right into a horse’s hoof without hurting the poor beastie? ' Now we.had heard rumors also authentic information, and so one bright spring morning, we drove out through our wildwood gate and followed the winding mountain grade to Nevada City, from that historic town, a short cut led us to the town of Rough and Ready—do you remember the.town and how, in its virile, flaming youth, it “riz right up’’ and seceded from the Union, declared itself to be the “free and independent State of Rough and Ready.” It had its day of freedom from all restraint and then returned to the fold to live at peace with Uncle Sam forever after. That is the story, in the words of Mr. Ripley, ‘‘believe it or not.” Well, here in Rough and Ready and with no_ chestnut tree in sight, the village smithy stands. It stands beside the highway, and there one finds the smithy, a grandson of the original founder, shoejng horses and doing other smithy tasks in just the same old way. The shop, with part of the original structure still standing, was erected in the early fifties, the first anvil used by its founder is shown with pride to interested visitors, it came originally from England and was probably shipped around the Horn. In this old building are many other relics of olden days, among them;.a plow of the vintage of fifty-two. I wished a souvenir of our pleasant visit to the village smithy, and the friendly and courteous smith found the shoe of an oxen which he ‘placed in my hands, and then, . spoke out of turn. . “Is this half a shoe?” I inquired, my words were greeted by masculine laughter, you see, . had forgotten that the lowly ox, like the celebrated Pan, had cloven hoofs. It is so very easy to conceal one’s ignorance by keeping silence upon certain occasions. . should have remembered that important fact. Uncle Silas says: ‘‘After comparing the horrors of Dante’s Inferno with the reign of unleashed human fiendishness now obtaining in Europe. I’ve decided that Dante was woefully lacking in imagination.” —. MERRIAM CONNER. their country, and the biograph-. ers of the nation’s heroes and great. It is like the love of beauty and truth and, indeed, is allied to them. And when the child, becoma man, beholds the flag flying, its glorious colors shining in the sun, involuntarily his--heart sings a hymn, and his hand salutes it. THINKING OUT LOUD (Continued From Page One) the flag is the symbol, to be sure, but only a symbol. The (Cross is the symbol of Christianity, the Chescent of Mohammed‘s philosophy and way of life. But in a true sense, neither the Cross or the Crescent express: their respective religions, and likewise the Flag does not express patriotism. Patriotism is fundamental in all right LETTER SHAMES MOBILE, Ala. (UP) — It’s only nine miles from Mobile’s city hall to SNAIL relations of life and of govern. its school board headquarters—but ment, it embraces the ideals -of . it took a letter one year, one month America and its relations with . and four days to make the trp, The letter was from Mayor Charles Baumhauer offering the school board a chance to -get sidewalkpaving at a price of 35 cents a lineal foot. —other nations. Children draw it in with their breath at the family fireside. They are embued with it by reading the inspiring history of Politically Speaking By JOHN’ W. DUNLAP United Press Staff Correspondent SACRAMENTO, June 6.—(UP)— The long awaited final figures on May 7 presidential primary gave Mrs. Frank Deering of San Francisco and Patrick William McDonough

of Oakland whatever honor there is in having. a half-vote each on the Roosevelt third term delegation. Mrs. (‘Deering and McDonough scored the highest voting totals on! the Garner ticket, hence were entitled to join the] Roosevelt delega-. tion in the vacancies left by Lt. Gov. Ellis E. Patterson . and William Gibbs . McAdee. Being delegates at large, they split one vote between them, When there is a por : long list of names John W. Dunlap. on a ballot, those at the top invariably get the most votes. Mrs. Deering, was No. 1 on the alphabetical list but McDonough, No. 4, passed up two women ahead of him by a narrow margin. There had been some speculation (Culbert Olson would & ahs, where Gov. land, in view of the recall campaign, against him. He was listed No. 5 in alphabetical order but ran second only toi. B: Dockweiler, the former national committeeman who was first on the ballot. Willis Allen was first on the ham and egg ticket and also the leader of his movement, so he surprised no one by leading his group in votes. As for Patterson, he was tied for second in votes although 38th in order on the ballot. : Bradford Melcin, state Republican chairman, got 538,112 in his first place spot on the ballot. The breakdown on the four Democratic tcikets gave Dockwelier (Roosevelt) 723,782; Mrs. Deering (Garner), 114,594; Allen (ham and eggs), 90,718 and Mrs. Fay E, Allen (left-wing), 48,337. The Democratic delegation nearly had a rift over plans for, embarking for the ‘Chicago convention in July. One faction wanted the California delegation to join with Washington { . semblyman. He courted the ham and . eggs votes for election to lieutenant The. ssue apparently was settledwhen State Chairman Paul Peek issued invitations to Washizgton, Oregon and Nevada democratic leaders to join with the Californians at the world’s fair July 9 and leave for the east the following morning. Peek said the western delegations easily could connect with groups from Utah and Idaho Salt Lake City and other delegations in Denver and Omaha enroute. in The shifting political philosophy of Lieut. Gov. Patterson has him back on the Roosevelt bandwagon now (or at the hour when this was written). Patterson has been hopping around so much it’s hard to say at any particular time just where he stands. Patterson was a Republican as late of 1935, then Switched “to the Democrats for reelection as an esgovernor in 1938, then switched off to a $6.0 per month pension plan. When the primaries rolled around, Patterson joined the Roosevelt ‘‘harmony” slate, then bolted to form his own left-wing liberal ticket which ran ingtoriously last. Part of his campaign was a denunciation of the . president and his foreign policy, . hence the eyebrow raising when Patterson glibly about-faced and came out for Roosevelt again. “T’ve got to. stick with the Democrats; I can’t go with the Republicans, ‘and I’m certainly not for Earl . Browder,’ he said, Then he smiled and added that he might switch back to the G. O. P. “if the ‘Democrats keep getting reactionary.”’ xe Patterson privately admits that Senator Hiram Johnsow leading both the Republican -and Democrats races although Patterson intends to further his own battle for the senatorship by attacking . the Johnson act, drawn by the veteran senator. This act prohibits credits to coun. tries who are in default: on their . debts from the last world war. Patterson summed up his foreign ideas by urging all possible aid to the allies short of declaration of war on opposing: belligerents, and advocating seizure by the United States of all islands in the western hemiis and Oregon on Treasure Island prior; sphere owned by present belligerto entertaining east. A southern fac-}. ents ‘‘to prevent their bein u-e7 as tionhad.thought—ofan--Arrowhead-+-bases for-an-attaek await *h® MniSprings blowout instead of Treasure! ted States in the event of 1 Go nan Island. ~ VACtOry. < BUICK HEADQUARTERS by ~~ JamES PRESTON A tremendous issue is arising in. Washington to concern Americans who want. to protect their country from any aggressor. It is this: Who shall guide America’s rearmament? Everyone agrees that the nation must build up its defenses. Nearly everyone agrees that nobody is in a! better position than the Army and ‘Navy to determine what the country needs. closely studied developments abroad. They certainly are in a better position than politicians or average laymen to decide what guns: and shells and airplanes and ships the country should have. The big, unanswered question however, is who shall direct the production of all this equipment. Present plans apparently are to leave control of this in the hands of government officials. e: These officials are to be ‘‘advised’’ by experts in such fields as manufacturing, transportation, finance, and so on. The problem now is to what extent are these officials equipped for . the job before them, and if they are not so equipped, to what extent will the listen to sound advice. To illustrate:° Secretary Morgenthau has taken the lead in government efforts to speed the airplane and machine tool industries. Morgenthau has never had an experience in manufacturing airplanes and machine tools He is an up state New York farmer who specializes in berries. Secretary Hopkins of the Commerce Department says the nation must get what it wants when it wants it for defense. He is right, say most people. ‘But many persons in and out of Washington are asking what he knows :about the best way to help the nation get what it wants. He was a. social worker until he. took over expenditure of federal relief funds. He has never had any personal experience in the field of manufacturing or commerce, Labor strife, Washington talk reminds, can hamstring national defense. Yet under the present plans operations in the labor field would be in the handsof the LaborDepartThese military experts have! REMODELED, IMPROVED Paul Viles, Buick distributor for ‘Nevada and_ Sierra counties, has completed renovating and remodeling his headquarters, garage and display rooms in Hills Flat. He has now paved a wide section of the property out to the sidewalk line, re. moved the gas pumps to a shady spot under the marquee, and expects to erect a huge awning along the entire . front of his building. ment and the Labor Board. Secretary er, Perkins, another social workknows nothing from personal exper-ence of problems which the manufacturer and producer must solve. Of the Labor Board’s members, only one has had any personal contact with the problems of employers. He Once was. personnel man for a big department store, But neither he nor his. colleagues has ever worked in a factory to know how employees and employers feel, In short, as an increasing number of People are beginning to see it, the question is whether college professors, social workers and gentlemen farmers are in a position to figure out how and\when shell cases shall be made, Or, should ‘he men who will be ordered to produce these Shell cases have somethin to sa about: it? \ : _ There is talk about “standardizing” various industries, such ag airPlanes and airplane engines, so that defense necessities may ‘be turned out by the thousands, Even some folks, in Washington are wondering whe: ther the way to do this standardizing can be decided best by politicial appointees or by men .under whose guidance American’ Senius has developed production methods -which, for example, give us thebest and least expensive automobiles in the world. At tie beginning of the World War scare, some Washington visionaries though they could just ‘issue orders and things would be done the way they said it. It cost America billions to find out they were wrong. And the lesson cost dearly in time too. America this time should be smart enough to avoid anything that will bog down its national defense» program.