March 21, 1938 (4 pages)

YJ fy 3 SI aL he ESE ERS A RE Sse ian ley towns, ‘towns. They are not ideal for A The Ueek By H. M. L. Jr. An excellent .way to quicken our appreciation of the natural beauty and quaint charm of Nevada City: and its environs is to go away for A time away from our permanent abode provides just such a fillip as is sometimes necessary for the quickening of our senses ‘to the fullest appreciation of the greeness of home pasttures. Boredom and listlessnegs enter into our lives, occasional concomitants of contetitment bred by peaceful living. When this happens, our familiarity with this locality. creates about us a grey shell of insensibility to the charm of the local scene. As we go about our daily’ affairs, we ‘may be quite blind to pictures about us that a trip. and imagination would at once attract our attention and. admiration were they transmitted by the painter's brush or photographer’s s lense into lesser works of art: ¥ 3 Coming back to Nevada City after a vacation away, we bring with us fresh impressions\of other places, places Which we perhaps thought of as greener pastures when we set out on our journey. There forms a nat-« ural contrast in our minds between home and the places we have visited. It is. the experience of ‘this writer that Nevada City rarely suffers from these comparisons. Certainly the valwith their drab exteriors as alike as peas in a pod, their insufferably hot summers “ahd long drizzly winters, and their extreme deficiency of personality make Nevada City appear to be a bnight and scenic paradise in comparison. The bay cities, except for their sometimes dubious blandishments in the realm of entertainment, cannot provide, except to the very rich, anything like the uncrowded and pleasant homesites of this mountain town. Nevada City’s short and stormy win--ter shines as an angel of temperance in comparison with the year long fog of the coastal regions. When we come back to Nevada City we smell again the fresh fragrance of the-pines. So used to this pleasant odor had ‘we become before we ‘went away on our trip that it comes again to us as an almost new sensation, unappreciated for a long time in the past. The view from Town Talk, going toward Nevada City, is one that is rarely surpassed in ordinary experience. The picture of the little hilly pocket of the township, bounded by Banner Mountain, Washington Ridge, Sugar Loaf and Cement Hill, and ornamented by the white crags of the Sierra Buttes in the distance and a usually bright blue sky overhead is one whose preSnbehe ay ior as Gatentonee om N k. From the Californian, March 15, 1848: The Liberiy of the Press consists e V q a iI ¥ Uu 4 € f . in the right to publish the Truth, Wit. good motives and ~ for just. ifiable ends. —Alexander HamilCOVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ERP aeeEre RCS Vol. 12, No. 24. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY. CALIFORNIA. 7, The Gold Center MONDA ; _ MARCH 21, 1938. When the ‘Clampers gather in Nevada City .at the sound of the hewfag on Saturday afternoon, and evening, and the roll is called of “poor blind brothers’ and those who have already taken their vows and under. } gone the tests of the’ rejuvenated . Argonaut order, there: will be found . among them many an old timer. From San Francisco ‘is coming Adam Lee Moore, Grand Clampatriarch of the order, and the last Grand Hum-. bug of the Sierra City chapter as the . old timers knew, it. There will be! Dr. J.\H. Barr of Yuba City, and -William; Henry Kessler of North San Juan, to give the authentic note to the revels and rituals of the William Bull Meek Chapter of Nevada county, about-to-be. A letter received today from Ad-. dison B. Schuster, one of the editors of the Oakland Tribune and a member of Yerba Buena Chapter of B Clampus Vitus reads:’ “My loves are for the mountains and their genuine people. If I could retire, I would ‘tbe ‘there. I regard the invitation to take on a new membership in the William Bull Meek (long may his name resound) chapter as something precious.’’ Leon Whitsell, of the California Railroad Commission, has stated that he expects.a large delegation of Yerba Buena members, the first chapter organized under the new dispensation from the shade of St. Vtius, to arrive in Grass Valley around noon. and Attorney George Ezre Dane, also one of the members of the Yerba Buena diggings, has promised to bring up a party Saturday, April 2. For the San Francisco Clampers a special program of entertainment is ‘being prepared, ‘beginning with a lunch at Bret Harte Inn. There will follow a short tour of historic points in Grass Valley. Nevada Ciity and enand a gathering in Armory where livirons, hall late_in the afternoon, bations will be poured to Peter Pan and the* 49ers. In the evening there will be_a dinner at the National Hotel Adjournment will be taken then to Armory Hall, where a great collection of anOld Time Clampers_ Will Assemble When Hewgag Blows, Apr. 2 OLD BRUNSWICK EXPLORERS ARE LODGED IN JAIL Because were looking for a place to sleep, or so they said, A. J. Shuman and Joe Corsoe, are now lodged in the county jail where sleeping is one of the major occupations. They were arrested last night in the drain tunnel of the Old Brunswick mine and it is because the nightwatchman did not see how anyone could sleep in a tunnel discharging fourtten or fifteen. miners inches of water, that he called the sheriff’s office and’ had Shuman and Corsoe charged with burglary. Corsie was apyrehended at the door of the tunnel ‘holding the end of a string and Shuman was found far in the tunnel carrying a ball of string. On the string was a knot which was supposed to mark the distance between the door and a spot in the drain tunnel where highgrade was cached. The two were equipped with a bar and the lock on the tunnel door had been pried off. In the days when highgrading was a highly developed indoor sport in the Old Brunswick mine the highgraders on their way to the surface in skip were wont to hurl their can or bag or highgrade into the drain tunnel, and then on a dark and stormy night carefully wend their way from the mouth of the tunnel in the hillside and pick up the package. Later on with a stout door erected at the tunnel mouth and padlock thereon, the practice became hazardous, and with a nightwatchman on the job, as Messrds. Shuman-and Corsoe discovered, chances of being undetected were practically nil. they the ciousness to inhabitants of this dis-;tiauities will be assembled, includSe eee trict-is enhanced by each new exeur-. ing a bottle of vermouth over sixty sion away years old from the old Malakoff dig> a . . : pape a gings at Broomfield. There will folHELD FOR JOSEPH DUNLAP After we round a few curves down, low the secret rites of initiation of Ea ea the highway, another very pretty pic-!all those whose fortitude and deterRev. H. H. Bupiener conducted ture comes to view—Sugar Loaf,.mination make them eltgible candi-. funeral services last Saturday at the round, green and gracefully half-. dates for E Clampus Vitus. Holmes Funeral Home for 1e. late framed by the branches of the huge! Joseph Dunlap, who passed away last pine tree just outside the city lim-. Vednesday in as Linda. Gots its, that is every year decorated . PEGGY HILT CALLE were many beautiful floral tributes Its, € s € at A : : F AY . nds lative , with bright lights at Christmas time. sent by hee and relatives. Seve S : : ; i be 1 ethodist hymns were Nevada City on its seven hills pvresBY GRIM REAPER . al beautif u fethodi 2 ents a pleasant facet to every direcsung. The body was interred in the S.§ ‘ a mies tion. The up and down streets of the ve t Pine Grove cemetery. Members of town, twisting planless!y here and Peggy V. Hill, who resided in se ea family were pallbearers. ( 5 s z t SiSs} anc 55. : ae there just as:they did in the 50’s,. Vada City for a long time, and hobs . eecae enero Seat eune ear are a far and heartening cry from. °¢ Widow of Wiliiam J. Hill, ar . . the drab regimented streets of valley heavy traffic, but then neither are the best streets in the big overcrowded cities of the state. Our city streets have few signs of the dirty poverty so depressing in the industrial districts of larger towns and cities. Historic landmarks lend the dignity of an honorable and colorful history to this locality. The quaint old firehouses, the old steel bridges, the skeleton-like row of ‘buildings on Commercial street above Main—al} add their notes of quaint color to Nevada City. True, many of these most ipicturesque structures are outmoded and will presently be destroyed iby the grinding wheel of progress, but in their places will rise more beautiful buildings. The construction of the modern court house over the old one destroyed a quaint old-fashioned building and for a time the smooth white face of the new courthouse seemed out of place in our homely moutnain town, but now —who regrets the substitution of the new governmental home of concrete and burnished copper for the old-fashioned courthouse? « The loss of a few landmarks which like the old courthouse, must go the way of horse carriagep, wlil not decrease the picturesque beauty of Nevada City. The grarfd natural setting, the quaint crooked streets—those will always be here. And the characertistic old fashioned atmosphere that_is provided by interesting and time Nevada City resident who died in this city over twenty five years ago: A wide circle of friends and relatives tn.this city are saddened by her recent death in Sacramento. The Hills were widely known and were respected for their splendid struggle against adversity. outmoded. styles of house-building will linger for a long, long time, before less picturesque but more comfortable modern abodes entirely supplant them. The stately old-fashioned homes of Nevada street and upper Broad street are ‘monuments to a less hurried way of life. The occasional old stepping block and tying posts, relics of the age of horsedrawn vehicles still sound a placid not in the clashing cacophonies of the machine age. We,are lucky to live in a place so suggestive of pleasant memories. The suggestion of pleasant memories is not really important, but the necessity. for awareness of the many beauties, of nature and of the town itself, is a necessity that must be heeded if we are to enjoy to the full our life away from the noise and grime of big cities. Pleasant as life in Nevada City is, its pleasures can be redoubled by an acute and vigilant consciousness of good things about us, things which, though .a part of our everyday experience, are known rare treasures to intelligent and less fortunate ‘peoples in other localities. € as ° BIRTHDAYSI! ae a Greeting to’ Your Friends. ” 6 MARVIN HADDY Nevada City March 21, 1938 JOYCE HENWOOD Nevada City March 23, 1938 EVERETT ANGOVE Pine Street March 24, 1938 IDA PRATTI Clark Street CHARLIE DEAN Coyote Street March 25, ‘1938 GEORGE ROSE (Camptonville March 26, 1938 LUCILLE DUNLAP Gold Flat , BILL SHARP Nevada City March 27, 1938 CATHERINE DAVIS Park Avenue MRS. THEO. RUNDY Nevada Street REG KENNEDY Nevada City March. 28, 1938 VIOLET SOGA Nevada City —_— Happy Birthday HATFIELD’S HAT INTER RING Fo? CALE G GOVERNOR SAN_FRA NCISCO, Mar. tenant 21.—LieuGeorge J. Hi&tfield announced candidacy for seovernor of California. Mr. Hatfield’s statement follows: I shall be a candidate for govern-. or at the forthcoming primary elec. tion. I shall so deal with the public . questions and problems-now at issue} in California that there shall be no} doubt of my position. : At the outset, I wish to make this . unequivocal covenant with the peo. ple of California: If Iam élected. governor, I will not be a candidate! Governor today for re-election at the end -of my term. I will make it my job to build California rather than a political dynasty. Appointments will be made upon basis of merit; not to pereptuate my administration. The vicious practice of delaying apppintments to. boards and commissions in the interests of political expediency will be ended forthwith. The state civil service will be administered by a board sincerely in accord with the spirit of civil service. State employees will be paid salaries commensurate with those paid-in like positions in private business. Advancements in pay or position will ibe made for experience and demonstrated ability, not for political considerations. Discrimination because of race or creed will be abolished. TAX REDUCTION The tax burden in California, today, is extortionate beyond all justification. Taxes for state government alone have more than doubled during the last four years, soaring from. $91,000,000 in 1933 to $220,000,000 in 1937. In face of such conditions, it is both idle and deceptive to prate of a prospective surplus in the state treasury. ‘Exorbitant tax inereases have created deficits in business and industry and placed intolerable burdens on-taxpayers of.all classes. I pledge myself to the restoration of sanity in governmental expenditures. I pledge myself to the task of equalizing taxes, not only as between the different tax pasing groups, but also as between local and state governments. I am unqualifiedly opposed to increasing taxes on common property. I am likewise opposed to the unsound and visionary “single tax’ in any guise or form. FLOOD CONTROL tecent flood catastrophes in both Northern and Southern (California, following a cycle of drought years, forcibly demonstrate the necessity for a state wide plan of conservation and flood control. The great Centrai Valley Water Project must be driven to rapid completion. Likewise we must drainage facilit-. of our of which have become clogged by sand, debris and vegetation during drought} years. Penny wise politics in the past on the part of the state have resulted in losses of millions today on the part of our citizens. The state, cooperating with local wend_ federal agencies, can and should inaugurate a program of flood control that will avoid future cataclysmic losses in property and human lives. SOCIAL SECURITY The greatest. tragedy of any period of depression is the tragedy of the aged and infirm, the unemployed and indigent It is a fundamental problem—one which cries~out for solution. But I can have only contempt for those who betray our aged and unfortunate with false promises, given for reasons of political expedieney. The problem which confronts us is realistic rather than theoretical. Thousands of destitute and unemployed already are pouring into California from other states. It would be a traitor to my ‘state if I gave encouragement to unsound proposals ‘whieh would make California the poorhouse of the nation and bring ruin to Gur own citizens. Both the federal and state governments have undertaken experiments in_ social security and pensions, but the task of fashioning an adequate, workable program, which will.provide protection for our aged and our unemployed without placing unbearable burdens. on our employed workers and tax payers, is still: before us. I will deal “with ‘the problem sympathetically, yet realistically to find a sound solution which will take care of-our own,.adequately and -pridefully, but with proper safeguards jto ~protect develop the ies streams, many . snow . highway or SPRING IS HERE BELIEVE IT OR NO OT * The first jay of spring fell on Suzy day and ands snow deptheof twelve inches at 15 miles e snow plows sunsitine and hail falling ‘to a Steep Hot of Nevada brought showers, snow . low about City. The which have been working steadily for about. tén days have about one more mile of to clear on the Tahoe Ukiah from the Omega road into Bear Valley. The snow depth varies from five to ten feet deep and it is frozen hard making work slow. It is expected the road will be clear to U. S. 40 by the end /of the week, : There is a two foot snow pack at Sierra City and. twelve feet of snow ast upper are on the ground at the Yuba Pass. . ! ac-. The rainfall at Nevada City cording to the rain gauge. at the home of Mrs. Jennie Preston was 57 . inches to the first of March and since . that time 12.09 inches have fallen . making a total of 69.09 inches to . date. Sunshine and clouds are the . order today and promise is for clear weather tomorrow. — . . FRANK CRAMPTON, EXCORIATES C10 LABOR RACKET ‘The following editorial written by Frank Crampton, mining engineer of this ity, appears in the current issue of The Mining Journal: In mining, an understanding between management and labor must go beyond that of hours and wages, for mining holds a position in our . economic structure different than . that of any other industry. Any in. crease of cost in gold ‘and silver production cannot be passed to the consumer since prices for these metals . are fixed. Economie laws control world prices for copper, lead, zinc, and other base metals. Hence, mines have no power to make the value of their product absorb increases. in cost. Wages, hours and working conditions in mines have been superior to most other industries for years. Mine owners have long shared increased profits with ‘their workmen by a sliding wage scale based on _ prices and \other methods. Mine workers are skilled and of high intelligence, and realize that to close a mine, even for a short™period, would cause serious damage and might in fact, prebeing reonened. to organize r.ight vent its ever The privilege ofNlabor is a recognized fundamental and mine employers, without excepwelcome sound organworkmen for, with responsible . tion, would their negotiations through a labor union, agreements are invaniab. and the contracts kept: 3 peculiar ization by { lv reached, Mining communities in that they grow around mines -: prosper as the mines prosper. Dws,.-. ers in these communities rightfully . themselves an integral part of . mine’s success or failure. They} the greater number of workmen,: but, unfortunately, it is impossible that they supply all. As a result, outside workers of less stable character pass in and out, from time to time. It is also upfortunate that there are a few’men in any local community who are not qualified for mine employment; hence, dissatisfaction is thigh among the unemployable and outside groups. Most mining. centers have their local unions functioning for’ the workmen and to their benefit, as well as to that of the community and the mine operators. Invariably a complete and satisfactory understanding exists between employer and employe as to hours, wages, and working condtiions insofar as the local men who shave chosen the camp as their home are concerned. Recently labor agitators have entered mining communities where conditions have been satisfactory, a local union recognized, and wages and working conditions exceptionally good. These outsiders are under CIO sponsorship and unwanted locals of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers have been organized. Enrollment has been of the dissatisfied, incompetent local men and a large percentageof outsiders and “‘drifters.’’ In no case have more than. a seattering few of the substantial local werkmen been enticed into becoming members of the hybrid union. Appeals are feel the supply to prejudice and class (Continued on Page Two) . Ter hatred, as well as coercive and sub-. SIX ALLEGED BIOTERS PLEAD NOT GUILTY Six charged with rioting on the Murchie road at the junction of the Red Dog-road on January 20 men this morning pleaded not guilty in’ Raglan * the Superior Court, Tuttle presiding. The six are Roy Staton, James Vasion, Henry Yuen, Peter Zdrich, Grant Spear, and C. E. Circle. George R. Anderson, attorney the defendants, Judge for submitted a demurto the information. Attorney Anderson claimed that. the information was faulty in that both disturbing the peace and rioting were eh4rged. District Attorney Vernon Stoll held that information was in the exact j}language of the California statute. Judge Tuttle overruled the demur. rer. The date of trial for five of the defendants was.set for April. 25, while that of Grant Spear was left to be set on April 25. The court and attorneys discussed the best ° procedure of summoning jurors, it being agreed that 50 or 60 be required to be present each day until the jury box is filled. Anderson stated that he thought it would require several days to select a jury. : Anderson gave notice that unless the State Supreme Court has acted upon the constitutionality of the peremptory challenge presented Judge Frank Dunn of San Francisco, he will file another writ of prohibition in the Supreme Court. At present the Supreme Court has: before it a writ of prohibition in the case of Judge Dunn, who like Judge Tuttle refused to heed a peremptory challenge issued by Anderson when the six defendants were up for arraignment last month. The Third . District:Court.of Appeals has already . held that the preremptory ‘challenge, i provided for in a new section, 170 by the legislature of 1937 , is unconStitutional. This decision is now being tested in the State Supreme Court by means of writs of prohibt. tion, which if granted, would compel Superior Court judges to vacate the bench. when peremptorily challenged. It is expected that the Supreme Court will hand down a decision before April 25. Veryl Gray of Lodi was a Nevada City visitor yesterday. He stated the floods have had a bad effect on his section. The asparagus company by which he.is employed has about 2,000 acres in asparagus Last year there were about 10,000 crates of the vegetable cut while this year there is almost none. orgianization not purposes Reason f are considered; they.are deliberately Smit SES or instead, and knowingly Statements such as acts . ‘President Roosevelt is behind us’, pand “The NLRB will back us in ;everything we do,’’ are common. AppealNis to selfish motives and the unreasoned attitude born under massled thinking. Leadership invariably is by outsiders who are racuous voieed specialists‘in hatred; few, if any of them, are. familiar with mining problems, either frem the standpoint of labor or operator} none of them are interested’ in the welfare of the mine: employes. To bolster their or-~ ganization they do have a few of the local radicals in minor positions with in the new union. What happens to the miners is of no concern to the organizer; object is to stir unrest to the personal profit of ‘themselves. Workmen may suffer from need of money for themselves and their families, but never receive adequate benefits, if any, from the newly formed union, to offset the loss of a job. Even when a pay increase is arranged it is never may be no reopening of a mine when the strike is over. Shoulda mine close due to prohibitive costs, only the mine and its labor are affected; the outside organizers go elsewhere and ‘repeat their nefarious work in some other nining community. Toprevent destruction of the mining industry of the United States, an industry without which we ‘would turn back ten thousand years, mine cooperate to the end that unwanted and unnecessary outsiders and agitators will have an unwelcome re¢epdisturb the operations upon which entirely dependent, Each must broaden and consolidate its efforts in Or= versive methods, are often used for der to avoid destruction. Ss owners and local miners’ unions must both labor and the mine operator are: their < sufficient to make up the loss. No ~— consideration is ‘given the fact there : tion when they enter a community to*

YJ fy 3 SI aL he ESE ERS A RE Sse ian ley towns, ‘towns. They are not ideal for A The Ueek By H. M. L. Jr. An excellent .way to quicken our appreciation of the natural beauty and quaint charm of Nevada City: and its environs is to go away for A time away from our permanent abode provides just such a fillip as is sometimes necessary for the quickening of our senses ‘to the fullest appreciation of the greeness of home pasttures. Boredom and listlessnegs enter into our lives, occasional concomitants of contetitment bred by peaceful living. When this happens, our familiarity with this locality. creates about us a grey shell of insensibility to the charm of the local scene. As we go about our daily’ affairs, we ‘may be quite blind to pictures about us that a trip. and imagination would at once attract our attention and. admiration were they transmitted by the painter's brush or photographer’s s lense into lesser works of art: ¥ 3 Coming back to Nevada City after a vacation away, we bring with us fresh impressions\of other places, places Which we perhaps thought of as greener pastures when we set out on our journey. There forms a nat-« ural contrast in our minds between home and the places we have visited. It is. the experience of ‘this writer that Nevada City rarely suffers from these comparisons. Certainly the valwith their drab exteriors as alike as peas in a pod, their insufferably hot summers “ahd long drizzly winters, and their extreme deficiency of personality make Nevada City appear to be a bnight and scenic paradise in comparison. The bay cities, except for their sometimes dubious blandishments in the realm of entertainment, cannot provide, except to the very rich, anything like the uncrowded and pleasant homesites of this mountain town. Nevada City’s short and stormy win--ter shines as an angel of temperance in comparison with the year long fog of the coastal regions. When we come back to Nevada City we smell again the fresh fragrance of the-pines. So used to this pleasant odor had ‘we become before we ‘went away on our trip that it comes again to us as an almost new sensation, unappreciated for a long time in the past. The view from Town Talk, going toward Nevada City, is one that is rarely surpassed in ordinary experience. The picture of the little hilly pocket of the township, bounded by Banner Mountain, Washington Ridge, Sugar Loaf and Cement Hill, and ornamented by the white crags of the Sierra Buttes in the distance and a usually bright blue sky overhead is one whose preSnbehe ay ior as Gatentonee om N k. From the Californian, March 15, 1848: The Liberiy of the Press consists e V q a iI ¥ Uu 4 € f . in the right to publish the Truth, Wit. good motives and ~ for just. ifiable ends. —Alexander HamilCOVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ERP aeeEre RCS Vol. 12, No. 24. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY. CALIFORNIA. 7, The Gold Center MONDA ; _ MARCH 21, 1938. When the ‘Clampers gather in Nevada City .at the sound of the hewfag on Saturday afternoon, and evening, and the roll is called of “poor blind brothers’ and those who have already taken their vows and under. } gone the tests of the’ rejuvenated . Argonaut order, there: will be found . among them many an old timer. From San Francisco ‘is coming Adam Lee Moore, Grand Clampatriarch of the order, and the last Grand Hum-. bug of the Sierra City chapter as the . old timers knew, it. There will be! Dr. J.\H. Barr of Yuba City, and -William; Henry Kessler of North San Juan, to give the authentic note to the revels and rituals of the William Bull Meek Chapter of Nevada county, about-to-be. A letter received today from Ad-. dison B. Schuster, one of the editors of the Oakland Tribune and a member of Yerba Buena Chapter of B Clampus Vitus reads:’ “My loves are for the mountains and their genuine people. If I could retire, I would ‘tbe ‘there. I regard the invitation to take on a new membership in the William Bull Meek (long may his name resound) chapter as something precious.’’ Leon Whitsell, of the California Railroad Commission, has stated that he expects.a large delegation of Yerba Buena members, the first chapter organized under the new dispensation from the shade of St. Vtius, to arrive in Grass Valley around noon. and Attorney George Ezre Dane, also one of the members of the Yerba Buena diggings, has promised to bring up a party Saturday, April 2. For the San Francisco Clampers a special program of entertainment is ‘being prepared, ‘beginning with a lunch at Bret Harte Inn. There will follow a short tour of historic points in Grass Valley. Nevada Ciity and enand a gathering in Armory where livirons, hall late_in the afternoon, bations will be poured to Peter Pan and the* 49ers. In the evening there will be_a dinner at the National Hotel Adjournment will be taken then to Armory Hall, where a great collection of anOld Time Clampers_ Will Assemble When Hewgag Blows, Apr. 2 OLD BRUNSWICK EXPLORERS ARE LODGED IN JAIL Because were looking for a place to sleep, or so they said, A. J. Shuman and Joe Corsoe, are now lodged in the county jail where sleeping is one of the major occupations. They were arrested last night in the drain tunnel of the Old Brunswick mine and it is because the nightwatchman did not see how anyone could sleep in a tunnel discharging fourtten or fifteen. miners inches of water, that he called the sheriff’s office and’ had Shuman and Corsoe charged with burglary. Corsie was apyrehended at the door of the tunnel ‘holding the end of a string and Shuman was found far in the tunnel carrying a ball of string. On the string was a knot which was supposed to mark the distance between the door and a spot in the drain tunnel where highgrade was cached. The two were equipped with a bar and the lock on the tunnel door had been pried off. In the days when highgrading was a highly developed indoor sport in the Old Brunswick mine the highgraders on their way to the surface in skip were wont to hurl their can or bag or highgrade into the drain tunnel, and then on a dark and stormy night carefully wend their way from the mouth of the tunnel in the hillside and pick up the package. Later on with a stout door erected at the tunnel mouth and padlock thereon, the practice became hazardous, and with a nightwatchman on the job, as Messrds. Shuman-and Corsoe discovered, chances of being undetected were practically nil. they the ciousness to inhabitants of this dis-;tiauities will be assembled, includSe eee trict-is enhanced by each new exeur-. ing a bottle of vermouth over sixty sion away years old from the old Malakoff dig> a . . : pape a gings at Broomfield. There will folHELD FOR JOSEPH DUNLAP After we round a few curves down, low the secret rites of initiation of Ea ea the highway, another very pretty pic-!all those whose fortitude and deterRev. H. H. Bupiener conducted ture comes to view—Sugar Loaf,.mination make them eltgible candi-. funeral services last Saturday at the round, green and gracefully half-. dates for E Clampus Vitus. Holmes Funeral Home for 1e. late framed by the branches of the huge! Joseph Dunlap, who passed away last pine tree just outside the city lim-. Vednesday in as Linda. Gots its, that is every year decorated . PEGGY HILT CALLE were many beautiful floral tributes Its, € s € at A : : F AY . nds lative , with bright lights at Christmas time. sent by hee and relatives. Seve S : : ; i be 1 ethodist hymns were Nevada City on its seven hills pvresBY GRIM REAPER . al beautif u fethodi 2 ents a pleasant facet to every direcsung. The body was interred in the S.§ ‘ a mies tion. The up and down streets of the ve t Pine Grove cemetery. Members of town, twisting planless!y here and Peggy V. Hill, who resided in se ea family were pallbearers. ( 5 s z t SiSs} anc 55. : ae there just as:they did in the 50’s,. Vada City for a long time, and hobs . eecae enero Seat eune ear are a far and heartening cry from. °¢ Widow of Wiliiam J. Hill, ar . . the drab regimented streets of valley heavy traffic, but then neither are the best streets in the big overcrowded cities of the state. Our city streets have few signs of the dirty poverty so depressing in the industrial districts of larger towns and cities. Historic landmarks lend the dignity of an honorable and colorful history to this locality. The quaint old firehouses, the old steel bridges, the skeleton-like row of ‘buildings on Commercial street above Main—al} add their notes of quaint color to Nevada City. True, many of these most ipicturesque structures are outmoded and will presently be destroyed iby the grinding wheel of progress, but in their places will rise more beautiful buildings. The construction of the modern court house over the old one destroyed a quaint old-fashioned building and for a time the smooth white face of the new courthouse seemed out of place in our homely moutnain town, but now —who regrets the substitution of the new governmental home of concrete and burnished copper for the old-fashioned courthouse? « The loss of a few landmarks which like the old courthouse, must go the way of horse carriagep, wlil not decrease the picturesque beauty of Nevada City. The grarfd natural setting, the quaint crooked streets—those will always be here. And the characertistic old fashioned atmosphere that_is provided by interesting and time Nevada City resident who died in this city over twenty five years ago: A wide circle of friends and relatives tn.this city are saddened by her recent death in Sacramento. The Hills were widely known and were respected for their splendid struggle against adversity. outmoded. styles of house-building will linger for a long, long time, before less picturesque but more comfortable modern abodes entirely supplant them. The stately old-fashioned homes of Nevada street and upper Broad street are ‘monuments to a less hurried way of life. The occasional old stepping block and tying posts, relics of the age of horsedrawn vehicles still sound a placid not in the clashing cacophonies of the machine age. We,are lucky to live in a place so suggestive of pleasant memories. The suggestion of pleasant memories is not really important, but the necessity. for awareness of the many beauties, of nature and of the town itself, is a necessity that must be heeded if we are to enjoy to the full our life away from the noise and grime of big cities. Pleasant as life in Nevada City is, its pleasures can be redoubled by an acute and vigilant consciousness of good things about us, things which, though .a part of our everyday experience, are known rare treasures to intelligent and less fortunate ‘peoples in other localities. € as ° BIRTHDAYSI! ae a Greeting to’ Your Friends. ” 6 MARVIN HADDY Nevada City March 21, 1938 JOYCE HENWOOD Nevada City March 23, 1938 EVERETT ANGOVE Pine Street March 24, 1938 IDA PRATTI Clark Street CHARLIE DEAN Coyote Street March 25, ‘1938 GEORGE ROSE (Camptonville March 26, 1938 LUCILLE DUNLAP Gold Flat , BILL SHARP Nevada City March 27, 1938 CATHERINE DAVIS Park Avenue MRS. THEO. RUNDY Nevada Street REG KENNEDY Nevada City March. 28, 1938 VIOLET SOGA Nevada City —_— Happy Birthday HATFIELD’S HAT INTER RING Fo? CALE G GOVERNOR SAN_FRA NCISCO, Mar. tenant 21.—LieuGeorge J. Hi&tfield announced candidacy for seovernor of California. Mr. Hatfield’s statement follows: I shall be a candidate for govern-. or at the forthcoming primary elec. tion. I shall so deal with the public . questions and problems-now at issue} in California that there shall be no} doubt of my position. : At the outset, I wish to make this . unequivocal covenant with the peo. ple of California: If Iam élected. governor, I will not be a candidate! Governor today for re-election at the end -of my term. I will make it my job to build California rather than a political dynasty. Appointments will be made upon basis of merit; not to pereptuate my administration. The vicious practice of delaying apppintments to. boards and commissions in the interests of political expediency will be ended forthwith. The state civil

service will be administered by a board sincerely in accord with the spirit of civil service. State employees will be paid salaries commensurate with those paid-in like positions in private business. Advancements in pay or position will ibe made for experience and demonstrated ability, not for political considerations. Discrimination because of race or creed will be abolished. TAX REDUCTION The tax burden in California, today, is extortionate beyond all justification. Taxes for state government alone have more than doubled during the last four years, soaring from. $91,000,000 in 1933 to $220,000,000 in 1937. In face of such conditions, it is both idle and deceptive to prate of a prospective surplus in the state treasury. ‘Exorbitant tax inereases have created deficits in business and industry and placed intolerable burdens on-taxpayers of.all classes. I pledge myself to the restoration of sanity in governmental expenditures. I pledge myself to the task of equalizing taxes, not only as between the different tax pasing groups, but also as between local and state governments. I am unqualifiedly opposed to increasing taxes on common property. I am likewise opposed to the unsound and visionary “single tax’ in any guise or form. FLOOD CONTROL tecent flood catastrophes in both Northern and Southern (California, following a cycle of drought years, forcibly demonstrate the necessity for a state wide plan of conservation and flood control. The great Centrai Valley Water Project must be driven to rapid completion. Likewise we must drainage facilit-. of our of which have become clogged by sand, debris and vegetation during drought} years. Penny wise politics in the past on the part of the state have resulted in losses of millions today on the part of our citizens. The state, cooperating with local wend_ federal agencies, can and should inaugurate a program of flood control that will avoid future cataclysmic losses in property and human lives. SOCIAL SECURITY The greatest. tragedy of any period of depression is the tragedy of the aged and infirm, the unemployed and indigent It is a fundamental problem—one which cries~out for solution. But I can have only contempt for those who betray our aged and unfortunate with false promises, given for reasons of political expedieney. The problem which confronts us is realistic rather than theoretical. Thousands of destitute and unemployed already are pouring into California from other states. It would be a traitor to my ‘state if I gave encouragement to unsound proposals ‘whieh would make California the poorhouse of the nation and bring ruin to Gur own citizens. Both the federal and state governments have undertaken experiments in_ social security and pensions, but the task of fashioning an adequate, workable program, which will.provide protection for our aged and our unemployed without placing unbearable burdens. on our employed workers and tax payers, is still: before us. I will deal “with ‘the problem sympathetically, yet realistically to find a sound solution which will take care of-our own,.adequately and -pridefully, but with proper safeguards jto ~protect develop the ies streams, many . snow . highway or SPRING IS HERE BELIEVE IT OR NO OT * The first jay of spring fell on Suzy day and ands snow deptheof twelve inches at 15 miles e snow plows sunsitine and hail falling ‘to a Steep Hot of Nevada brought showers, snow . low about City. The which have been working steadily for about. tén days have about one more mile of to clear on the Tahoe Ukiah from the Omega road into Bear Valley. The snow depth varies from five to ten feet deep and it is frozen hard making work slow. It is expected the road will be clear to U. S. 40 by the end /of the week, : There is a two foot snow pack at Sierra City and. twelve feet of snow ast upper are on the ground at the Yuba Pass. . ! ac-. The rainfall at Nevada City cording to the rain gauge. at the home of Mrs. Jennie Preston was 57 . inches to the first of March and since . that time 12.09 inches have fallen . making a total of 69.09 inches to . date. Sunshine and clouds are the . order today and promise is for clear weather tomorrow. — . . FRANK CRAMPTON, EXCORIATES C10 LABOR RACKET ‘The following editorial written by Frank Crampton, mining engineer of this ity, appears in the current issue of The Mining Journal: In mining, an understanding between management and labor must go beyond that of hours and wages, for mining holds a position in our . economic structure different than . that of any other industry. Any in. crease of cost in gold ‘and silver production cannot be passed to the consumer since prices for these metals . are fixed. Economie laws control world prices for copper, lead, zinc, and other base metals. Hence, mines have no power to make the value of their product absorb increases. in cost. Wages, hours and working conditions in mines have been superior to most other industries for years. Mine owners have long shared increased profits with ‘their workmen by a sliding wage scale based on _ prices and \other methods. Mine workers are skilled and of high intelligence, and realize that to close a mine, even for a short™period, would cause serious damage and might in fact, prebeing reonened. to organize r.ight vent its ever The privilege ofNlabor is a recognized fundamental and mine employers, without excepwelcome sound organworkmen for, with responsible . tion, would their negotiations through a labor union, agreements are invaniab. and the contracts kept: 3 peculiar ization by { lv reached, Mining communities in that they grow around mines -: prosper as the mines prosper. Dws,.-. ers in these communities rightfully . themselves an integral part of . mine’s success or failure. They} the greater number of workmen,: but, unfortunately, it is impossible that they supply all. As a result, outside workers of less stable character pass in and out, from time to time. It is also upfortunate that there are a few’men in any local community who are not qualified for mine employment; hence, dissatisfaction is thigh among the unemployable and outside groups. Most mining. centers have their local unions functioning for’ the workmen and to their benefit, as well as to that of the community and the mine operators. Invariably a complete and satisfactory understanding exists between employer and employe as to hours, wages, and working condtiions insofar as the local men who shave chosen the camp as their home are concerned. Recently labor agitators have entered mining communities where conditions have been satisfactory, a local union recognized, and wages and working conditions exceptionally good. These outsiders are under CIO sponsorship and unwanted locals of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers have been organized. Enrollment has been of the dissatisfied, incompetent local men and a large percentageof outsiders and “‘drifters.’’ In no case have more than. a seattering few of the substantial local werkmen been enticed into becoming members of the hybrid union. Appeals are feel the supply to prejudice and class (Continued on Page Two) . Ter hatred, as well as coercive and sub-. SIX ALLEGED BIOTERS PLEAD NOT GUILTY Six charged with rioting on the Murchie road at the junction of the Red Dog-road on January 20 men this morning pleaded not guilty in’ Raglan * the Superior Court, Tuttle presiding. The six are Roy Staton, James Vasion, Henry Yuen, Peter Zdrich, Grant Spear, and C. E. Circle. George R. Anderson, attorney the defendants, Judge for submitted a demurto the information. Attorney Anderson claimed that. the information was faulty in that both disturbing the peace and rioting were eh4rged. District Attorney Vernon Stoll held that information was in the exact j}language of the California statute. Judge Tuttle overruled the demur. rer. The date of trial for five of the defendants was.set for April. 25, while that of Grant Spear was left to be set on April 25. The court and attorneys discussed the best ° procedure of summoning jurors, it being agreed that 50 or 60 be required to be present each day until the jury box is filled. Anderson stated that he thought it would require several days to select a jury. : Anderson gave notice that unless the State Supreme Court has acted upon the constitutionality of the peremptory challenge presented Judge Frank Dunn of San Francisco, he will file another writ of prohibition in the Supreme Court. At present the Supreme Court has: before it a writ of prohibition in the case of Judge Dunn, who like Judge Tuttle refused to heed a peremptory challenge issued by Anderson when the six defendants were up for arraignment last month. The Third . District:Court.of Appeals has already . held that the preremptory ‘challenge, i provided for in a new section, 170 by the legislature of 1937 , is unconStitutional. This decision is now being tested in the State Supreme Court by means of writs of prohibt. tion, which if granted, would compel Superior Court judges to vacate the bench. when peremptorily challenged. It is expected that the Supreme Court will hand down a decision before April 25. Veryl Gray of Lodi was a Nevada City visitor yesterday. He stated the floods have had a bad effect on his section. The asparagus company by which he.is employed has about 2,000 acres in asparagus Last year there were about 10,000 crates of the vegetable cut while this year there is almost none. orgianization not purposes Reason f are considered; they.are deliberately Smit SES or instead, and knowingly Statements such as acts . ‘President Roosevelt is behind us’, pand “The NLRB will back us in ;everything we do,’’ are common. AppealNis to selfish motives and the unreasoned attitude born under massled thinking. Leadership invariably is by outsiders who are racuous voieed specialists‘in hatred; few, if any of them, are. familiar with mining problems, either frem the standpoint of labor or operator} none of them are interested’ in the welfare of the mine: employes. To bolster their or-~ ganization they do have a few of the local radicals in minor positions with in the new union. What happens to the miners is of no concern to the organizer; object is to stir unrest to the personal profit of ‘themselves. Workmen may suffer from need of money for themselves and their families, but never receive adequate benefits, if any, from the newly formed union, to offset the loss of a job. Even when a pay increase is arranged it is never may be no reopening of a mine when the strike is over. Shoulda mine close due to prohibitive costs, only the mine and its labor are affected; the outside organizers go elsewhere and ‘repeat their nefarious work in some other nining community. Toprevent destruction of the mining industry of the United States, an industry without which we ‘would turn back ten thousand years, mine cooperate to the end that unwanted and unnecessary outsiders and agitators will have an unwelcome re¢epdisturb the operations upon which entirely dependent, Each must broaden and consolidate its efforts in Or= versive methods, are often used for der to avoid destruction. Ss owners and local miners’ unions must both labor and the mine operator are: their < sufficient to make up the loss. No ~— consideration is ‘given the fact there : tion when they enter a community to*