March 29, 1937 (4 pages)

. Thinking Out Loud H. M. L. Across the sky at long intervals a comet brightly streams, approaching the orbit of the earth, and then receding, growing fainter, until at length it plunges into the darkness of the infinite vault beyond human ken. Thus. it is with people and their heroes. The latter rise and fall and the former briefly hail, worship, and then abandon the great man to the oblivion of history. Dusty tomes enshroud the names of comets and heroes. History is a burying ground and only the scholarly in later years read the epitaphs recorded there. Pity though it is, so rapidly dot a hero’rise, shine, and fade nowadays . that often he is interred in this metaphorical sense, even while he is still alive. Father Coughlin, for instance. None now so poor as to give him a handclap and it was only yesterday that he commanded inch high type on the front page. Dr. Townsend, who, badgered and insulted by the small mentalities of a congressional committee, expressed the contempt that millions felt, may now pay for his temerity with a term in jail. But he, too, is on his way to entombment in the Roosevelt chapter of American history. On him has been spent millions of printed words, hundreds of thousands of columns of newspaper space, but twenty years from now a _ bespectacled historian will dismiss him with a scant .paragraph. Again, there was Huey Long, murdered at the very summit of his career. His assassin perhaps spared the United States its first dictator. For he was the real dictator of Louisiana, the kingifish of a share-thewealth kingdom, who actually did appoint judges to suit his purposes and actually did order their verdicts. Thousands aclaimed him the .Messiah of a downtrodden and thriftless world. But now none. so faithful to his memory as to lay a wreath on his tomb. : At the moment rising toward the Hy zenith is the grim visage of John L. Lewis, casting. off sparks and 4 clouds of gas as he whirls upward horizen: Garrulous and fl careless newspaper prophets see in him a candidate for the Presidency in 1940. But we suspect that when 1939 rolls around the throngs that now worship and acclaim him, will be kneeling on their marrow bones to some newer hero with a newer message. For every hero carries within him the seeds of his own dissolution, It may be the sit-down strike in Lewis’ case. It is a safe rule that when any ego swells to a point wheres it justifies the means by the end, there is an explosion and the rest is star dust and a paragraph in a musty volume on the high shelf. from the Our children will live to read the chapter on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in American history when it is written fifty years from now. Will it be long or short? Will it be as long as that upon Theodore Roosevelt? None can say of course, but we believe it will be one of tae longest ,and most interesting. For he and these others who have flared { across the popular empyrean have changed or will change. in significant respects the character of American governmental . institutions. Whether for better or ‘worse none yet can say. But it is certain that drastic changes are taking place. Por instance Father Coughlin with his ‘broadcast preachments brought unity and hope to a multitude of the downcast and oppressed. Dr. Townsed, hectored and insulted by a congressional committee intent only on stirring up a stench to cover their own inquities and stun’. the olefactories of their deluded constituents, nevertheless has had a tremendous influence in securing for the American people the social security Hee act.: Even though this measure will), > probably never produce for its beneficiaries the preposterous pension of $200 per month, the upper brackets do make possible a pension of $85 per month. Huey Long, disgusting character though. he was, and conscienceless rabble rouser, still, with his gospel of “share the wealth” left his imprint on the times. For it it in the South where Long.lived, and where the Democratic party.for almost a eentury has ruled in etenomic and political. affairs, that humah.oppression has been most cruelly exemplified. Ne poor whites and Ht tle children over vast areas live ina condition so little removed from slavery, that possibly slavery were a orTroes,; tiki se ii RED iis a Lee iS 3 0s a da Ci The Nevada City Nugget helps your — city and county to grow in population and prosperity. By subsribing to, and ty . oe RICHEST ote AREA IN . CALIFORNIA ee ugget advertising in the Nugget, you help yourself. therefore, eel , No. 26. Les County Seat Paper Seeder 15 CITY, CALIF ORNIA The Gold Center hdd MARCH £9, 1937. us Vol. CIVICCLUBTOHOLD SPECIAL MEETING, APRIL 7 The Nevada City. Woman’s Civic club will have a special social meeting at the Brand Studio on Wednesday night, April 7, It is with a great deal of pleasure that the president and program chairman announce this meeting. Due to the heavy snow storms the program meeting in Janiuary was postgonied and the club members ave happy to have this extra meeting at this time. At Wednesdays meeting each club member will have the privilege of bringing a guest and extend to them the greeting of the club. and the pleasure of enjoying the fine program and social time. The program chairman, Mrs. Charles Elliott has selected a reception and refreshment committee consisting of the president, Mrs. Harley M. Leete, program chairman, Mrs. Charles Elliott; and other program commiteee members. Mrs. A.’ M. Hoge, Jr., and Mrs. Leland Smith. Also club members, Mrs. Frank Finnegan, Mrs, W. P. Lee and Mrs. R. EH. Harris, Mrs. Beverley Barron, Mrs. Walter Hawkins, Mrs. L. Lageson. The program will consist of a-talk by Miss Gertrude Goyne,, a dramatic reading by Mrs. Raglan Tuttle, and vocal selections by request, by Mrs. Charles Elliott. Miss Goyne who spent last summer in the Hawaiian Islands, will give her “impressions of the islands, their charm and beauty and the hospitality. of the people. Miss Goyne has many interesting articles brought from the islands which she will show to the ladies. Mrs. Tuttle who gives a ee each year fof the club and whose readings are-always looked forward . to with a great deal of pleasure will . give’ a dramatié reading. . Following the program refresh. ments will be served and a social . time*enjoyed. Each club member’ is . requester (please do ot forget) to' ‘bring a small plate, a eau and spoon. LEAGUE TODAY VOTING ON MINE OWNERS’ OFFER The Mine Workers “Protective League last Thursday rescinded action taken at a mass meeting last Sunday and voted to take a secret ballot today on the mine operators’ proposal of a 50 cents a day wage boost, The surprise move by the 800 members of the league who attended Thursday night’s meeting, dismissal of the committee of five appointed at the Sunday meeting to confer further with the mine owners. The voting today is taking place in the directors room of the Auditorium ‘building between 7 a.m. and 7 p. m. passionate, flaming egotism flowed a new vision to the desperate, despised and the exploited of the South. Lewis probably will be known in history, in perhaps a hundred words, as the father of the sit-down strike. Yet the sit-down strike, outlaw though it is, may be the means of arriving at a formula for peaceful relations between those who ‘work and those who hire. In fact there are glimmerings of such a solution of this problem already visible. It may be that this illegal means of forcing adjustments may create such a popular reaction that eventually our laws may be.amended, strengthened and more rigidly enforced. The entire matter now is in flux. None can predict the outcome until public sentiment has crystalized. é As for Roosevelt the Lesser, and his fifteen ‘billions of pump priming, history will probably record that his prodigal spending did help us out of one depression into another and greater depression, as he himself today fears. We are today whirling toward the highest inflationary heights in all time. In this and in other things, our President has loosed forces that he and all those who sit with. him in high places, cannot control. To Warren Harding a short chapter. To Franklin Roosevelt a long chapter. Mrs. C. E. Bosworth: and = Mrs. Catherine Celio of Nevada City sang soles on the program in the Episecopal church in Grass Valley ‘Sunday oN i better condition. From Huey Long’s evening, ~‘cording to a study BEAR RIVER QUOTA ASSURANCES SIGNED UP At the meeting of of the es Hydraulic Mining Association held at the Bret Harte Inn in Grass Valley Saturday it was reported by Ed C. Uren, who has been assisting in consolidating that 32,000,000 yards of gravel had been signed up there. This added to the 69,00,000 cubic yards in the Little Greenhorn section brings the total of the Bear river watershed gravel well up to the hundred million cubic yard mark. It was reported that word had been received from Major Harris, staff memiber of the California Debris Commission that the revised assurances been forwarded from the Sacramento. office to the San Francisco office and that he believed that they were now on their way to Washington. This was interpreted to mean that the assurances had met with the endorsement of the California Debris» Commission. The next meeting of the Hydraulic Mining Association will be held in Auburn on April 10. HI CHORUSES WILL GIVE MINSTREL SHOW ee The Nevada City High School Boys and Girls Choruses, which won praise as an excellent musical group, will give a minstrel show at the grammar school auditorium some time in May. The boys and girls, under the splendid .direction of Mrs. Marian Libbey are warking hard on the different parts of the show in order to make it a success. The show will include dances, solos, songs and clever dialogues and will be supported by the Névada City ae school band. NEVADA C0. TAX $16.16 PER CAPITA Per capita general count taxes for current purposes in Nevada county averaged $11.05 for 1936-37, . acrecently completed by Californnia Taxpayers association. In addition to this levy, the association stated, an average of $3.05 per capita was levied for current school purposes, $1.98 for school bonds, and 13 cents for county special districts. The total for county, school and special district purposes, the association stated was $16.16 per capita. For the state as a whole, the association found that the average per capita levy for general county pur-: poses for 1936-37 was $11.74, for county bonds 70 cents, for current school purposes $8.68, for school bonds $2.87, and for special district taxes $1.23. the total average per capita taxes levied, exclusive of cities, being $25.22. In twenty four California counties the total-average per capita tax levy exclusive of cities, was higher than the state average of $25.22, the association found. These counties were Alameda, Alpine, Butte, Colusa, Contra Costa, Del Norte, Glenn, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Los Angeles, Madera, Merced, Modoc, Orange, Plumas, San Luis Cbispo, Santa Barbara, Sonoma, Sutter, Trinity, Tuolumne, Ventura, and Yolo. Thirty three counties showed average levies below the state average. Of these thirteen, El Dorado, Imperial, Lassen, Mono, ‘Monterey, Nevada Placer, San Benito, Santa Cruz, Siskiyou,.Solano, Tulare, and Yuba showed average total levies below $20 per capita. The lowest were Imperial $16.01 per capita; Siskiyou, $16.14 per capital amd Nevada $16.16 per capita, : » Sixteen counties showed no levies of general county taxes for bonds, the association found, and five had no levies for special district taxes during 1936-37. 678 DRUNKEN DRIVERS LOSE LICENSES IN FEB. SACRAMENTO, March 29. Drunken driving caused the suspension of the driving licenses of 678 persons during February. Paul Mason chief, of the State Division § of Drivers Licenses, announced today. Licenses of 366 persons were revoked, suspended orcancelled for . other reasons in tthe same _ period, while the driving privilege of 112 persons were restored. the Dutch Flat area, . , CCC CAMPS RANK “FIRST INU. S. -RELIFE SYSTEM President Rooveselts first unemPloyment relief measure, the Civilian Conservation Corps, will celebrate its fourth anniversary this year and Robert Fechner, director of Emergency Conservation Work asks that the period March 31 to April 5 be observed with appropriate ceremonies, Army authorities in charge. of the CCC camps will join the U. 8. Forest Service, National Park service and other work agencies for the purpose of informing the public about the corps and its activities -in the conservation of human and natural resources. U. S. Regional Forester S. B. Show under whose direction work is carTied on in the national forests of California, believes that the Civilian Conservation Corps has made a name and a place for itself in American life. “Four years ago,’’ said Mr. Show, “the public was rather inclined to ridicule what they called President Roosevelt’s ‘Tree planting Army.’ Today 82 per cent of all the people in the country and 87 per cent of those on the Pacific Coast are in favor of the CCC, according to the report of the America Institute of Public Opinion. Two bills are now in Congress to make the CCC a ‘permanent institution,” According to Mr. Show, the CCC has functioned as a relief’ agency of great. social and economic value. Such authorities as James B. Holohan, former warden of San Quentin believes that the CCC camps kept hundreds if not thousands of young men from getting into trouble during the depression. Miss Dorothy Thompson, noted columnist has said that the human.results of CCC training are vastly more heartening than in any other form of relief. CCC boys leave camps in better health, and spirits; they have added to their skills, learned the importance of discipline and cooperation, and the NON-HIBERNATING BEAR DISTURBS ZEIBRIGHT . . A large black bear has been prowling around the cook‘s quarters at the Zeibright mine for the past month. The cook does not care for the bear. Not that he begrudges the bear the scraps of food from the garbage ¢an, but he does dislike the animal’s untidy habit of leaving a far flung . litter on the ground after ,every visit. One of the miners recently overhead the cook talking to himself while he raked up the debris from a midnight raid of bruin. The cook was saying: ‘ that of a bear. I wish the — would hibernate.’’ DOWNIEVILLE HAS 100 INP. T. A. The women of Downieville have one of the largest P. T. A. organizations for a town of its size of any in California. The P. T. A. there is ‘eight years old and has grown from the original membership of 26 to a membership of over The population about 500. 100 members. of Downieville is operation the P. T. A. has done much for the community. The monthly programs always include an educational topic and have been well attended. The club sponsors the Girl: Scout troop recently organized under the leadership of Mrs, V. A. Cassidy. Playground equipment has been furnished the school by the P. T. A. and installed on the school grounds. School curtains and trestles were made for the school entertainments in the were purchased for the drinking fountains were installed: the clock, cherished relic which had been purchased by a group of the school girls a short time after the present building was built and use hall, in givine rest cots school, a value of an honest days work. To describe what the CCC done in the national forests of Cali. fornia in the past four years would require a list of 175 different ssa ry activities. The figures for square yards of lake or stream banks tue tected from erosion run in to the) millionns, as do acreages covered} for rodent control. Nineteen different kinds of work were done in the . camp ground development and land-. scaping, and under the heading of forest protection are listed half a million acres in insect pest control. Thousands of miles of roads and trails were also fire proofed by removing hazards. “In forest fire fighting and fire prevention work,’* said=Mr. Show, “the CCC is credited with being largely responsible for reducing by half the acreage burned over’in the state and the losses of timber, range, and property, as compared to. former years. In: fire and flood and in all timgs of emergency in the forests or elsewhere, the CCC is an organization on which the people have come, to depend. There has been nothing . just like it heretofore. It filled a! long felt need in the national forests and we cannot now see how we can do without it.” Mr. Show stated that every month brings encouraging reports of boys who have secured employment and have been benefitted by their enrollment in the COC. Recently 120 new positions under U.S. Civil Service have been assigned to the national forests of the state. These are open to CCC boys who have qualified as assistant to technicianns through their job training experiences on forestry projects. The educational features of CCC life, especially in vocational training are becoming better organized and more effective, ana is now considered of equal importanes: “to work > project accomplishments, has . AUICK JURY ACOUITTAL IN INDIAN LIOUOR CASE An Indian masquerading Menican some weeks ago purchased . wine from the Moulton’ store at . French Corral. This. sale resulted in . the arrest of (Moulton’s clerk, W. N. . One license was taken from a Nevada county drunken driver during February. Baker. The jury trying#.this case in Sacramento last week took fifteen minutes to bring in an acquittal. . which for some time had refused to run, was converted into an electric clock and has resumed its life of usefulness; an unused .ante. room was converted into a kitchenette and equipped with an electric plate, kettles;-etc. so, hot drinks could be given the children during the cold stormy days of winter; donations . . were given the high school band for? uniforms and aid was given in grammar and high school graduations; a public Christmas tree with candy and oranges for all the children was arranged for.each year and an outdoor Christmas.tree was lighted during each Christmas season; a fence was placed on the school playground to lessen danger of accidents due to the high stone walls and play nights were established for the .children and given where they could:enjoy an evening’s amusement. These are some of the things contributed by the P. T. A. in its effort toward child welfare, and in these activities it has had the wholehearted support of trustees, teachers and the community at large. OPEN FORUM BEGINS AT H.S. THURSDAY EVE. The series at lecti lectures and open forum to be given at the Nevada City high school will begin ° Thursday ight, April 1 at 7:45 o’clock. Prof. (Michael Breckley of the Sacramento Junior Colylege will be the lecturer and leader of discussion. Ovor 100 persons have signed up for the course paying $1.25 each for the series of ten lectures. Persons who have not. signed up but wish to attend the lectures may do so by paying 25c for each lecture. BROKEN POWER LINES Power snow storms lines broken by heavy in the vicinity of Alleghany and»Downieville forced a halt in mininz operations in bgih communities for two days the latter part of last The two cities were also without power until the lines were repaired. Snow four feet‘deep in many plac es in the mountain regions disrupted telephone communications. Crews of men are at work on them. week, Through its splendid. spirit of cospent Eatser week in Nevada. City MURCHIE MINE RAISES WAGE 25° It was annonced Sat Saturday that the Management of the Murchie mine would raise the wage of employees by 25 cents a day. A few days ago the miners voting on a proposal to continue work under:the same conditions and scale of wages as then obtained, rather than close the mine April 15, voted 3 to 1 to contiune work. The raise of 25 cents a day came as a Pleasant surprise. MINE MECHANIC CRITICALLY HURT Jim Johns, employed at the Central shaft of the North Stor mine was badly hurt this mornin when he was caught between gallows frame and the sheave wheel of the hoist. Several ribs were broken and he was injured internally. He was. removed to the Jones Memorial hospital. His condition is critical, Dr. shea / of Grass Valley attended the injured _ man. SIT DOWNERS PUT BRAKES ON RUNAWAY MKT. PNA Eg H. P. Davis, mining engineer, who has been in New ‘York’ for several months returned last week to Nevada City. He flew-west and Mrs. Davis coming by train, joined him at the National Hotel, J. B. Canada, widely known engineer accompanied Davis west and is now engaged in examining mining properties here. Mr. Davies reports that in New York the sit-down strikes are regarded as coming just in time to head off another such crash in the stock market as occurred in 1929. The bearinsh influence of the sit-downers on the stock market, it is believed, has postponed for the time being the debacle toward which the present heavy trading and inflated values are heading. EARL PAXSON PASSES AWAY SUDDENLY TODAY The sad news of the sudden passing of Earl Paxson, auto salesman, in Grass Valley this morning in Dr. Landis Clinic comes as a shock to his many friends and relatives. He suffered an attack of appendicitis and when operated upon it was found his appendix. had burst. He did not survive the ordeal. Mr. Paxson and family resided in Nevada City for some time before moving to Grass: Valley. He sold ears from the lot west of the Alpha Hardware store in this city. Left to mourn his passing are a _ devoted wife and three children. TWO YOUTHS CONFESS — oe Leroy Dickerman and Voltaire . Toussant have confessed to burglar"izing the Grass Valley Safeway store on January 27 during a night when the snow storm raged. One let the other down through the sky light iby means of a long wire, and he let his companion in through the back door. Their booty was canned goods and -cigarettes, Toussant has been held in jail on a rape charge, Dic© kerman was arrested yesterday. NEW INDICTMENTS IN HIGHGRADING CASES The charges of high abe against W. A. Moulton and B. Ww. Hills, according to . San Frangisco dispatches were set aside last week, and new indi¢tments drawn. When the defendants will be tried on the new indictments was not stated. Attorneys for the defense regard the dismissal of old charges and indictment under now ones, as an evidence of weakness in the government’s case against the men. he Miss Louise RAEN who is attending Junior College in Sacramento, with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Martin of the Rio Gande oil sta tion, She had as a guest Miss Mu ie Daddock of Fair Oaks. :

. Thinking Out Loud H. M. L. Across the sky at long intervals a comet brightly streams, approaching the orbit of the earth, and then receding, growing fainter, until at length it plunges into the darkness of the infinite vault beyond human ken. Thus. it is with people and their heroes. The latter rise and fall and the former briefly hail, worship, and then abandon the great man to the oblivion of history. Dusty tomes enshroud the names of comets and heroes. History is a burying ground and only the scholarly in later years read the epitaphs recorded there. Pity though it is, so rapidly dot a hero’rise, shine, and fade nowadays . that often he is interred in this metaphorical sense, even while he is still alive. Father Coughlin, for instance. None now so poor as to give him a handclap and it was only yesterday that he commanded inch high type on the front page. Dr. Townsend, who, badgered and insulted by the small mentalities of a congressional committee, expressed the contempt that millions felt, may now pay for his temerity with a term in jail. But he, too, is on his way to entombment in the Roosevelt chapter of American history. On him has been spent millions of printed words, hundreds of thousands of columns of newspaper space, but twenty years from now a _ bespectacled historian will dismiss him with a scant .paragraph. Again, there was Huey Long, murdered at the very summit of his career. His assassin perhaps spared the United States its first dictator. For he was the real dictator of Louisiana, the kingifish of a share-thewealth kingdom, who actually did appoint judges to suit his purposes and actually did order their verdicts. Thousands aclaimed him the .Messiah of a downtrodden and thriftless world. But now none. so faithful to his memory as to lay a wreath on his tomb. : At the moment rising toward the Hy zenith is the grim visage of John L. Lewis, casting. off sparks and 4 clouds of gas as he whirls upward horizen: Garrulous and fl careless newspaper prophets see in him a candidate for the Presidency in 1940. But we suspect that when 1939 rolls around the throngs that now worship and acclaim him, will be kneeling on their marrow bones to some newer hero with a newer message. For every hero carries within him the seeds of his own dissolution, It may be the sit-down strike in Lewis’ case. It is a safe rule that when any ego swells to a point wheres it justifies the means by the end, there is an explosion and the rest is star dust and a paragraph in a musty volume on the high shelf. from the Our children will live to read the chapter on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in American history when it is written fifty years from now. Will it be long or short? Will it be as long as that upon Theodore Roosevelt? None can say of course, but we believe it will be one of tae longest ,and most interesting. For he and these others who have flared { across the popular empyrean have changed or will change. in significant respects the character of American governmental . institutions. Whether for better or ‘worse none yet can say. But it is certain that drastic changes are taking place. Por instance Father Coughlin with his ‘broadcast preachments brought unity and hope to a multitude of the downcast and oppressed. Dr. Townsed, hectored and insulted by a congressional committee intent only on stirring up a stench to cover their own inquities and stun’. the olefactories of their deluded constituents, nevertheless has had a tremendous influence in securing for the American people the social security Hee act.: Even though this measure will), > probably never produce for its beneficiaries the preposterous pension of $200 per month, the upper brackets do make possible a pension of $85 per month. Huey Long, disgusting character though. he was, and conscienceless rabble rouser, still, with his gospel of “share the wealth” left his imprint on the times. For it it in the South where Long.lived, and where the Democratic party.for almost a eentury has ruled in etenomic and political. affairs, that humah.oppression has been most cruelly exemplified. Ne poor whites and Ht tle children over vast areas live ina condition so little removed from slavery, that possibly slavery were a orTroes,; tiki se ii RED iis a Lee iS 3 0s a da Ci The Nevada City Nugget helps your — city and county to grow in population and prosperity. By subsribing to, and ty . oe RICHEST ote AREA IN . CALIFORNIA ee ugget advertising in the Nugget, you help yourself. therefore, eel , No. 26. Les County Seat Paper Seeder 15 CITY, CALIF ORNIA The Gold Center hdd MARCH £9, 1937. us Vol. CIVICCLUBTOHOLD SPECIAL MEETING, APRIL 7 The Nevada City. Woman’s Civic club will have a special social meeting at the Brand Studio on Wednesday night, April 7, It is with a great deal of pleasure that the president and program chairman announce this meeting. Due to the heavy snow storms the program meeting in Janiuary was postgonied and the club members ave happy to have this extra meeting at this time. At Wednesdays meeting each club member will have the privilege of bringing a guest and extend to them the greeting of the club. and the pleasure of enjoying the fine program and social time. The program chairman, Mrs. Charles Elliott has selected a reception and refreshment committee consisting of the president, Mrs. Harley M. Leete, program chairman, Mrs. Charles Elliott; and other program commiteee members. Mrs. A.’ M. Hoge, Jr., and Mrs. Leland Smith. Also club members, Mrs. Frank Finnegan, Mrs, W. P. Lee and Mrs. R. EH. Harris, Mrs. Beverley Barron, Mrs. Walter Hawkins, Mrs. L. Lageson. The program will consist of a-talk by Miss Gertrude Goyne,, a dramatic reading by Mrs. Raglan Tuttle, and vocal selections by request, by Mrs. Charles Elliott. Miss Goyne who spent last summer in the Hawaiian Islands, will give her “impressions of the islands, their charm and beauty and the hospitality. of the people. Miss Goyne has many interesting articles brought from the islands which she will show to the ladies. Mrs. Tuttle who gives a ee each year fof the club and whose readings are-always looked forward . to with a great deal of pleasure will . give’ a dramatié reading. . Following the program refresh. ments will be served and a social . time*enjoyed. Each club member’ is . requester (please do ot forget) to' ‘bring a small plate, a eau and spoon. LEAGUE TODAY VOTING ON MINE OWNERS’ OFFER The Mine Workers “Protective League last Thursday rescinded action taken at a mass meeting last Sunday and voted to take a secret ballot today on the mine operators’ proposal of a 50 cents a day wage boost, The surprise move by the 800 members of the league who attended Thursday night’s meeting, dismissal of the committee of five appointed at the Sunday meeting to confer further with the mine owners. The voting today is taking place in the directors room of the Auditorium ‘building between 7 a.m. and 7 p. m. passionate, flaming egotism flowed a new vision to the desperate, despised and the exploited of the South. Lewis probably will be known in history, in perhaps a hundred words, as the father of the sit-down strike. Yet the sit-down strike, outlaw though it is, may be the means of arriving at a formula for peaceful relations between those who ‘work and those who hire. In fact there are glimmerings of such a solution of this problem already visible. It may be that this illegal means of forcing adjustments may create such a popular reaction that eventually our laws may be.amended, strengthened and more rigidly enforced. The entire matter now is in flux. None can predict the outcome until public sentiment has crystalized. é As for Roosevelt the Lesser, and his fifteen ‘billions of pump priming, history will probably record that his prodigal spending did help us out of one depression into another and greater depression, as he himself today fears. We are today whirling toward the highest inflationary heights in all time. In this and in other things, our President has loosed forces that he and all those who sit with. him in high places, cannot control. To Warren Harding a short chapter. To Franklin Roosevelt a long chapter. Mrs. C. E. Bosworth: and = Mrs. Catherine Celio of Nevada City sang soles on the program in the Episecopal church in Grass Valley ‘Sunday oN i better condition. From Huey Long’s evening, ~‘cording to a study BEAR RIVER QUOTA ASSURANCES SIGNED UP At the meeting of of the es Hydraulic Mining Association held at the Bret Harte Inn in Grass Valley Saturday it was reported by Ed C. Uren, who has been assisting in consolidating that 32,000,000 yards of gravel had been signed up there. This added to the 69,00,000 cubic yards in the Little Greenhorn section brings the total of the Bear river watershed gravel well up to the hundred million cubic yard mark. It was reported that word had been received from Major Harris, staff memiber of the California Debris Commission that the revised assurances been forwarded from the Sacramento. office to the San Francisco office and that he believed that they were now on their way to Washington. This was interpreted to mean that the assurances had met with the endorsement of the California Debris» Commission. The next meeting of the Hydraulic Mining Association will be held in Auburn on April 10. HI CHORUSES WILL GIVE MINSTREL SHOW ee The Nevada City High School Boys and Girls Choruses, which won praise as an excellent musical group, will give a minstrel show at the grammar school auditorium some time in May. The boys and girls, under the splendid .direction of Mrs. Marian Libbey are warking hard on the different parts of the show in order to make it a success. The show will include dances, solos, songs and clever dialogues and will be supported by the Névada City ae school band. NEVADA C0. TAX $16.16 PER CAPITA Per capita general count taxes for current purposes in Nevada county averaged $11.05 for 1936-37, . acrecently completed by Californnia Taxpayers association. In addition to this levy, the association stated, an average of $3.05 per capita was levied for current school purposes, $1.98 for school bonds, and 13 cents for county special districts. The total for county, school and special district purposes, the association stated was $16.16 per capita. For the state as a whole, the association found that the average per capita levy for general county pur-: poses for 1936-37 was $11.74, for county bonds 70 cents, for current school purposes $8.68, for school bonds $2.87, and for special district taxes $1.23. the total average per capita taxes levied, exclusive of cities, being $25.22. In twenty four California counties the total-average per capita tax levy exclusive of cities, was higher than the state average of $25.22, the association found. These counties were Alameda, Alpine, Butte, Colusa, Contra Costa, Del Norte, Glenn, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Los Angeles, Madera, Merced, Modoc, Orange, Plumas, San Luis Cbispo, Santa Barbara, Sonoma, Sutter, Trinity, Tuolumne, Ventura, and Yolo. Thirty three counties showed average levies below the state average. Of these thirteen, El Dorado, Imperial, Lassen, Mono, ‘Monterey, Nevada Placer, San Benito, Santa Cruz, Siskiyou,.Solano, Tulare, and Yuba showed average total levies below $20 per capita. The lowest were Imperial $16.01 per capita; Siskiyou, $16.14 per capital amd Nevada $16.16 per capita, : » Sixteen counties showed no levies of general county taxes for bonds, the association found, and five had no levies for special district taxes during 1936-37. 678 DRUNKEN DRIVERS LOSE LICENSES IN FEB. SACRAMENTO, March 29. Drunken driving caused the suspension of the driving licenses of 678 persons during February. Paul Mason chief, of the State Division § of Drivers Licenses, announced today. Licenses of 366 persons were revoked, suspended orcancelled for

. other reasons in tthe same _ period, while the driving privilege of 112 persons were restored. the Dutch Flat area, . , CCC CAMPS RANK “FIRST INU. S. -RELIFE SYSTEM President Rooveselts first unemPloyment relief measure, the Civilian Conservation Corps, will celebrate its fourth anniversary this year and Robert Fechner, director of Emergency Conservation Work asks that the period March 31 to April 5 be observed with appropriate ceremonies, Army authorities in charge. of the CCC camps will join the U. 8. Forest Service, National Park service and other work agencies for the purpose of informing the public about the corps and its activities -in the conservation of human and natural resources. U. S. Regional Forester S. B. Show under whose direction work is carTied on in the national forests of California, believes that the Civilian Conservation Corps has made a name and a place for itself in American life. “Four years ago,’’ said Mr. Show, “the public was rather inclined to ridicule what they called President Roosevelt’s ‘Tree planting Army.’ Today 82 per cent of all the people in the country and 87 per cent of those on the Pacific Coast are in favor of the CCC, according to the report of the America Institute of Public Opinion. Two bills are now in Congress to make the CCC a ‘permanent institution,” According to Mr. Show, the CCC has functioned as a relief’ agency of great. social and economic value. Such authorities as James B. Holohan, former warden of San Quentin believes that the CCC camps kept hundreds if not thousands of young men from getting into trouble during the depression. Miss Dorothy Thompson, noted columnist has said that the human.results of CCC training are vastly more heartening than in any other form of relief. CCC boys leave camps in better health, and spirits; they have added to their skills, learned the importance of discipline and cooperation, and the NON-HIBERNATING BEAR DISTURBS ZEIBRIGHT . . A large black bear has been prowling around the cook‘s quarters at the Zeibright mine for the past month. The cook does not care for the bear. Not that he begrudges the bear the scraps of food from the garbage ¢an, but he does dislike the animal’s untidy habit of leaving a far flung . litter on the ground after ,every visit. One of the miners recently overhead the cook talking to himself while he raked up the debris from a midnight raid of bruin. The cook was saying: ‘ that of a bear. I wish the — would hibernate.’’ DOWNIEVILLE HAS 100 INP. T. A. The women of Downieville have one of the largest P. T. A. organizations for a town of its size of any in California. The P. T. A. there is ‘eight years old and has grown from the original membership of 26 to a membership of over The population about 500. 100 members. of Downieville is operation the P. T. A. has done much for the community. The monthly programs always include an educational topic and have been well attended. The club sponsors the Girl: Scout troop recently organized under the leadership of Mrs, V. A. Cassidy. Playground equipment has been furnished the school by the P. T. A. and installed on the school grounds. School curtains and trestles were made for the school entertainments in the were purchased for the drinking fountains were installed: the clock, cherished relic which had been purchased by a group of the school girls a short time after the present building was built and use hall, in givine rest cots school, a value of an honest days work. To describe what the CCC done in the national forests of Cali. fornia in the past four years would require a list of 175 different ssa ry activities. The figures for square yards of lake or stream banks tue tected from erosion run in to the) millionns, as do acreages covered} for rodent control. Nineteen different kinds of work were done in the . camp ground development and land-. scaping, and under the heading of forest protection are listed half a million acres in insect pest control. Thousands of miles of roads and trails were also fire proofed by removing hazards. “In forest fire fighting and fire prevention work,’* said=Mr. Show, “the CCC is credited with being largely responsible for reducing by half the acreage burned over’in the state and the losses of timber, range, and property, as compared to. former years. In: fire and flood and in all timgs of emergency in the forests or elsewhere, the CCC is an organization on which the people have come, to depend. There has been nothing . just like it heretofore. It filled a! long felt need in the national forests and we cannot now see how we can do without it.” Mr. Show stated that every month brings encouraging reports of boys who have secured employment and have been benefitted by their enrollment in the COC. Recently 120 new positions under U.S. Civil Service have been assigned to the national forests of the state. These are open to CCC boys who have qualified as assistant to technicianns through their job training experiences on forestry projects. The educational features of CCC life, especially in vocational training are becoming better organized and more effective, ana is now considered of equal importanes: “to work > project accomplishments, has . AUICK JURY ACOUITTAL IN INDIAN LIOUOR CASE An Indian masquerading Menican some weeks ago purchased . wine from the Moulton’ store at . French Corral. This. sale resulted in . the arrest of (Moulton’s clerk, W. N. . One license was taken from a Nevada county drunken driver during February. Baker. The jury trying#.this case in Sacramento last week took fifteen minutes to bring in an acquittal. . which for some time had refused to run, was converted into an electric clock and has resumed its life of usefulness; an unused .ante. room was converted into a kitchenette and equipped with an electric plate, kettles;-etc. so, hot drinks could be given the children during the cold stormy days of winter; donations . . were given the high school band for? uniforms and aid was given in grammar and high school graduations; a public Christmas tree with candy and oranges for all the children was arranged for.each year and an outdoor Christmas.tree was lighted during each Christmas season; a fence was placed on the school playground to lessen danger of accidents due to the high stone walls and play nights were established for the .children and given where they could:enjoy an evening’s amusement. These are some of the things contributed by the P. T. A. in its effort toward child welfare, and in these activities it has had the wholehearted support of trustees, teachers and the community at large. OPEN FORUM BEGINS AT H.S. THURSDAY EVE. The series at lecti lectures and open forum to be given at the Nevada City high school will begin ° Thursday ight, April 1 at 7:45 o’clock. Prof. (Michael Breckley of the Sacramento Junior Colylege will be the lecturer and leader of discussion. Ovor 100 persons have signed up for the course paying $1.25 each for the series of ten lectures. Persons who have not. signed up but wish to attend the lectures may do so by paying 25c for each lecture. BROKEN POWER LINES Power snow storms lines broken by heavy in the vicinity of Alleghany and»Downieville forced a halt in mininz operations in bgih communities for two days the latter part of last The two cities were also without power until the lines were repaired. Snow four feet‘deep in many plac es in the mountain regions disrupted telephone communications. Crews of men are at work on them. week, Through its splendid. spirit of cospent Eatser week in Nevada. City MURCHIE MINE RAISES WAGE 25° It was annonced Sat Saturday that the Management of the Murchie mine would raise the wage of employees by 25 cents a day. A few days ago the miners voting on a proposal to continue work under:the same conditions and scale of wages as then obtained, rather than close the mine April 15, voted 3 to 1 to contiune work. The raise of 25 cents a day came as a Pleasant surprise. MINE MECHANIC CRITICALLY HURT Jim Johns, employed at the Central shaft of the North Stor mine was badly hurt this mornin when he was caught between gallows frame and the sheave wheel of the hoist. Several ribs were broken and he was injured internally. He was. removed to the Jones Memorial hospital. His condition is critical, Dr. shea / of Grass Valley attended the injured _ man. SIT DOWNERS PUT BRAKES ON RUNAWAY MKT. PNA Eg H. P. Davis, mining engineer, who has been in New ‘York’ for several months returned last week to Nevada City. He flew-west and Mrs. Davis coming by train, joined him at the National Hotel, J. B. Canada, widely known engineer accompanied Davis west and is now engaged in examining mining properties here. Mr. Davies reports that in New York the sit-down strikes are regarded as coming just in time to head off another such crash in the stock market as occurred in 1929. The bearinsh influence of the sit-downers on the stock market, it is believed, has postponed for the time being the debacle toward which the present heavy trading and inflated values are heading. EARL PAXSON PASSES AWAY SUDDENLY TODAY The sad news of the sudden passing of Earl Paxson, auto salesman, in Grass Valley this morning in Dr. Landis Clinic comes as a shock to his many friends and relatives. He suffered an attack of appendicitis and when operated upon it was found his appendix. had burst. He did not survive the ordeal. Mr. Paxson and family resided in Nevada City for some time before moving to Grass: Valley. He sold ears from the lot west of the Alpha Hardware store in this city. Left to mourn his passing are a _ devoted wife and three children. TWO YOUTHS CONFESS — oe Leroy Dickerman and Voltaire . Toussant have confessed to burglar"izing the Grass Valley Safeway store on January 27 during a night when the snow storm raged. One let the other down through the sky light iby means of a long wire, and he let his companion in through the back door. Their booty was canned goods and -cigarettes, Toussant has been held in jail on a rape charge, Dic© kerman was arrested yesterday. NEW INDICTMENTS IN HIGHGRADING CASES The charges of high abe against W. A. Moulton and B. Ww. Hills, according to . San Frangisco dispatches were set aside last week, and new indi¢tments drawn. When the defendants will be tried on the new indictments was not stated. Attorneys for the defense regard the dismissal of old charges and indictment under now ones, as an evidence of weakness in the government’s case against the men. he Miss Louise RAEN who is attending Junior College in Sacramento, with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Martin of the Rio Gande oil sta tion, She had as a guest Miss Mu ie Daddock of Fair Oaks. :