March 29, 1940 (6 pages)

NEVADA CITY NUGGET FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 19409. OFF ON ANOTHER JOB —° THINKING OUT LOUD PAGE TWO leah ats sts eh i Shoe Nevada City Nugget Washington, Snapshots A Legal Newspaper, as defined by statute. Printed and Published at Nevada City. H.M-LEETE es ~_ Editor and Publisher * * 1879. + : SUBSCRIPTION RATES E * One year (In Advance) .....2.:.--.--2-0$2.50 ie publicans to have a try at putting By JAMES PRESTON Published Semi-Weekly, Monday and Friday at Nevada City. California, and entered as mail matter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevada City. under Act of Congress, March 3, oe ‘ (Continued From Page One) + GOT TO GO OWT’ ON AN EN — If farmers, housewives, office and factory workers, and the like, fall es will have to go up, in order that for Washington’s latest fairy story, the budget may be balanced at long they are in for some bruises—literally as well as figuratively. last. When any business adminis The latest yarn, tration attempts this there will be a hue and cry from notwithstanding hard and fast facts to the contrary, es though they is that the nation’s ills and particu due to the use of machines. And, of upon industry. It is held up before the nation as the chief producer of unemployment through the use of Democratic, To most people, such a story will seem silly on its face. It’s the story esting. And that story is this: Senator O’Mahoney of Wyoming is chairman tee, which is to hold hearings soon iled former head of a Berlin clinic, published an exhaustive study of Germany under the Nazi regime. — Facts renorted: Nazi food rations are insufficient to maintain normal resistance to disease. Deaths from rickets, tuberculosis, dipththeria, scarlet fever and childbirth have increased. Death rate of babies under one year is now double that of America: The birthrate has dropped ten per cent; the marriage rate 25 ver’tent. Cases of nervous diseases and insanity have nearly doubled. Dr. Gumpert doesn’t regard the ruthless Nazi ‘‘guns be-fore butter’’ regime as “‘infinitely rich in events.’ He voices no “Heil Hitler.” His book, in sad irony, is entitled “Heil Hunger!’’"— Contributed. on “technological unemployment’’— unemployment caused by Question—Is machines. and my father passed away recently machines and he and my mother were signers manual labor F Cre being is eredited with a years old headed, sound citizen. Answer—Under terms specified in generally fairly the California Vehicle Code, the lic hard ense is no longer Now Wash valid and 4 new ington wonders. It can’t figure out license is mandatory. Question—May I park my truck in why he should be supporting such a a green zone? A. S. Answer—Section 472 (d) of the The explanation surely couldn’t California Vehicle Code reads “Green be the facts that: (1) The Senator is. measure, WonpeRroin \. dusrr twenty of the application. C. L.— Senator O’Mahoney Carlisle in the Des Moines Register. am (operat So the senator introduces a Dill to and I license grant a tax benefit to those who use less valid? my ors): more. \ restore By CATEF E. RAYMOND CATO, California Highway Patrol of the Monopoly Commit Last week Dr. Martin Gumpert, now of New York, ex to TRAFFIC WHYS behind the story that is most inter prehension.” attempts national values which have been squandered by the dreamers and schemers of the New Deal. machines. to bring them about, they sometimes seems to surpass com who, actually erty. The day of atonement for this country will be the day when any administration, Republican or all things, most of the blame is put In his recent speech on the seventh anniversary of his accession to power, Adolf Hitler boasted: ““We look back on a seven year period infinitely rich in events. To us who were privileged not only to experience these events but who helped} those bear the brunt of all taxes, are not tax conscious because they have no prop larly its present unemployment, are Heil, Hunger! the country back on a sound economic basis. The hard way to recovery actually comes to this: the standard of living temporarily at least will have to come down. Tax up for re-election this fall; (2) indicates the time limit parking speci by fied by local ordinance.’’ Local orunions of railroad workers, and (3) dinances will specify to what time Machine tax bill is ‘endorsed I wonder why we speak of lost horizons, one of the strongest railroad. workvehicles may park. Why do we say there are no more frontiers? Question—is it practical to use fog ers’ unions is in Cheyenne, WyomThey still exist beyond the murky shadows lights during foggy or rainy weaCensored : i. ing, the senator’s home town. Of our self pity and our self created fears. ther? W. A. 8S. It is explained that the senator Answer—tThe California Vehicle I wonder if there are any lost horizons; no matter how Editor George E. Dunn, of the Half Moon Bay Review, remote and inaccessable, if once discerned by the eye of man, simply introduced his bill to open Code mentions that fog lights can be has earned a professional! pat on the back from fellow newscan they thereafter be correctly. spoken of as “‘lost?’’ Surely the subject up for discussion. He cerused under stated conditions. The papermen aswell as approval of readers for a unique and adventurous souls will one day advance upon them and from tainly has done so. ‘For-example, inpracticability of using them would quiries are being made at his office though-compelling editorial on the war-time censorship now sky fretting escarpments. discover other and more desirable now whether the typewriters have depend largely upon the circumstances. imposed upon all newspapers in warring nations. In a recent horizons leading them on to further and greater conquests. ‘been thrown out so all his correQuestion—What is the difference spondence may be answered in long(meaning) issue, Editor Dunn left a large editorial space blank. save for between “slow” and This is singularly true of those gleaming horizons which “caution” signs. M. H. the word “censored” in large black type, and printed beneath: haunt the heart and mind of humanity; great dreamers have hand and more people employed. He is being asked whether houseAnswer—Fundamentally, ‘‘slow’’ “This blank space represents a thoughtful pause in the dreamed greatly, and their visions come to us all at times; ofwives are supposed to throw away means that under all conditions a lives of all of us. The above is common in European newsten in dreams of the night, more frequently during waking their washing and other machines dangerous condition exists, and ‘cau. papers. It is the opposite of what we cherish: freedom of hours.of serious introspection and when once clearly seen so they may réturn to the days: of tion’? means that at any time a danspeech. Censorship means dictatorship, which in turn means a they can never be forgotten. They lure us by their beauty and back-breaking labor. It is wondered gerous condition may exist. They are people ridden by hate and fear and violence. See to it that it desirability, and make demands upon our thoughts and_ efwhether he wants farmers to disfor your protection and guidance. card their tractors and reapers and Question—Can. four persons ride doesn’t happen here!”’ : forts, promising fulfillment in which each one of us may have mowers and go back to the days in the front seat of a new motor vehCenturies before Democracy became a political actuality, a part. when they had to walk behind a oneicle? D. J. horse plow and cut their crops with the immortal Dante expressed the inseparable union of free Answer—Section 596 ofthe CaliI wonder at the multiplicity of frontiers yet to be cona scythe. expression, in speech and the published word, with true humquered. There are still geographical frontiers—arctic fornia Vehicle Code does not distincontinIt is being wondered, too, whether guish between new or old automoan liberty in the sentence: ‘Give light and the people will find ents, impenetrable jungles, vast deserts the wealth, of which he wants to let factory workers stop their own way.’ Newspapers are fallible, like other human no one has ever tried to estimate; there are archeological and pushing the buttons on machines and biles. If any number of persons obstruct the vision of the driver to _institutions—sometimes wrong, sometimes even unfair in a scientific frontiers so vast as to stagger the human imaginareturn to the days of forging metal, front or sides, or interfere with the and doing a thousand and one other given instance. But so long as all men, of al! shades of opin-" tion. There are frontiers all about us; who knows? There may laborious things by hand instead of operators control of the vehicle, a person could violate ‘the law with ion, are free to think and say and write and read_ what they be frontiers in your garden, there were many in the gardens of using machines to help them. four in the front seat. choose, the people of a nation cannot long be misled on the Luther Burbank. There are The senator for some reason is befrontiers in our workshops, and Question—-Often when shopping facts of any fundamental issue. In a world where half the laboratories—who can say, there are no more frontiers. ing very quiet about all this. The downtown I park my ear alongside popylation already is at war, and half the newspaper readers reaction hasn’t been to his liking. the street curb. What puzzles me is “I see a world at peace,” said a noted American, and so Senator O’Mahoney made much, this: already stare at blank spaces and wonder blindly what the visualized a frontier which Should I give a signal when has been neglected since history for instance, of the fact that factory leaving the curb and wnat signal censor deleted, that California editor's warning, “‘See to it that began. Now as never before, the world longs for the dreamed production has risen above its Dewould it be? Mrs. J. P. O'R. it doesn’t happen here,” is none the less profound because of of land of decency, order and reconstructed human relationcember, 1929 level, while factory emAnswer—tIn this regard the law its telling simplicity.—Contributed. ships. With virile, earnest and magnetic leadership, we could ployment is not keeping step. What states. ‘*No person shall start a vehhe fails to remember, however, is cross the frontiers of peace, set up gleaming standards of libthat ‘unemployment in factories is icle stopped, standing or parked on a highway unless and until such erty, equality and fraternity and take possession in the name proportionately much smaller than movement can be made with reason -How’s Your Credit? of common humanity. in other fields. I wonder if all the heroic talés of old have found _ their For example, able safety.”’ (In View of this, and the fact that™ the latest figures The state’s business, which is every citizen's business, is gallant equal in the modern epic of Finland's struggle with show manufacturing in January, you are moving. toward the left, a 1940, the same as in January, 1929. left turn signal would be appropriate. so vast and complicated that it-is difficult to realize that it difthe mighty Russian bear. Will the language now be enlarged But the comparable figures for other Such a signal, however, must be supfers from a private individual’s business only in degree. Wheby new figures of comparison—for instance, as unjust or as groups suffer by comparison: conported by your careful observation ther credit is asked by Joe Doakes, running a three-chair barharsh as Russian peace terms. There is most certainly a dark struction is 1,225,000 lower, transof approaching vehicles and caution ber shop, or by the State of California, the question is: Are blot. which can never be effaced from the escutcheon of Rusportation 416,000 lower, mining at all times in leaving the curb.) “you good for it? Until recently California state warrants were sia; Finland has secured for herself a shining niche in_ the 302,000 lower, public utilities 165,000 ,trade and distribution 474,000. VEHICLE DIRECT OR accepted rather luctantly by bankers. But since the legislature temple of fame from which she can never-be dislodged. Perhaps, too, the senator forgets WAR NS MOTORISTS Uncle Silas says: “In the light of recent events, it may that in these fields with greater unrefused to vote new taxes, and voted to restrain relief spend. FAC E HEAVY FINES be that several new words will creep into the language—mayemployment than manufacturing the ing to the needs of the unfortunate on relief, California’s credgovernment through new laws is doit has stepped up. State Finance Director John R. Richards be dictaphobia for the disease and dictomaniacs for those who Hundreds of former residents of ing a lot of. regulating that it didn’t other states now earning their living last week told an assembly committee studying state revenue are afflicted to the extent of leaving dictographs around prodo in 1929. Farmers’ crops are being here who evade payment of Califorand taxation, that the strict economy attitude of the legislature miscucusly. —A. MERRIAM CONNER. controlled; public utilities are under nia’s motor vehicle registration and in special session “‘has had a salutary effect on the state's strict federal and state regulation; vehicle fees by registering their lions on sheer waste, political racketeering and subversive railroads still don’‘t know what wil) vehicle s in their old home state, face Assemblyman Hubert B. Scudder of that committee put penetration. : be done to them; the government has tried all sorts of artificial means the payment of fees and heavy pen California’s credit is your credit and that of your neighto. stimulate construction, and the alties dating back to the date of the the matter more forcibly in a public address. ‘California state bor. It has been bolstered because our legislators felt the will effect has been the reverse. And now employment in this state. Acting uptaxes have more than tripled: in the last six years’ he declaron instructions Howard ‘R. ed. “They jumped from less than $91,000,000 in 1933 to the of the people for practical economy. In the present interim the mining industry is being conPhilbrick, directorfrom of Motor Vehicles before the coming session, that will should be further plainly frontier with new ClO-sponsored a close check-up is to be made ‘enormous sum of $31 1,850,000 for 1939. of all I believe that if legislation which would. put. federal Suspected vehicles by officers of the taxes were allowed to triple again in the next six years the expressed, so that no legislator need be in doubt as to what his inspectors in the mines. California highway patrol it was anworking, ‘ ying people of California would be robbed of district. desires —Contributed. ‘No wonder unemployment is off nounced today. in these industries. The interesting everything they possess by tax-confiscation!"’ Assemblyman a Any non-resident owner of a veh_ PAYROLLS AND DOLES thing Scudder points out further that legislative curbing of relief ‘ spending has not denied sustenance and shelter to the deserv-. : is that factories are only 51,000 below 1929 despite such things as the Wage-Hour law, the WalshHealey Act, and so on and on. It icle accepting gainful employment within California is considered a resi. California business is stepping up! One major airplane dent under the terms of section 216° ing, but has denied Communist-controlled pressure groups factory has a backlog of orders exceeding $150,000,0 00. Farof the California vehicle code. their access to tax-supplied slush funds for subversive troublemers, during '39, got back some of the money they lost in ’38. would seem that the manufacturing industry is entitled to credit rather Brunswick-OColumbia-Victor making and sabotage toward destruction of the American way Building ‘is on the upgrade. Factory Recpayrolls, last year, were than .condemnation. ords. The Harmony Shop, Grass Valof life. up . 1 per cent over 1938. Seven per cent more workers were An interesting sidelight on the ley. California's credit was in dire need of a “salutary effect!’’ employed; weekly earnings rose 4 per cent, and hourly wage subject of machines is that Congress e It is one thinto g tax and spend for essential governmental averages rose to 75.9 cents. —both senate and house—has votthe 150th annive rsary of the first services—and quite another thing-to-squander tens of mil-. But also, during 1939, the number of persons on relief ed unanimously to hold a special patents law signed by George Washcelebration of patents on April 10, 107 mim street Nevada County Photo Center a PHONE 67 aS BDrorcensprer : oa Grass Valley Portraits, Commercial Photography, 8 Hour Kodak Finishing, Old Copies, _ Enlarging and Framing; Kodaks and Photo Supplies, _Movie Cameras and Films in California increased 78 per cent! zoomed skyward. s And the cost of relief which the President will designate ington. A lot of Washingtonians wonder if ° _ as ‘Inventors’ and Patents Day.” the current agitation might not be When payrolls grow, transferring thousands of unemPatented devices,» most of them, political. The political future will be ployed to self-supporting jobs and automatically lessening the go far toward decreasing the sweat a lot brighter for many candidates need for relief spending — yet at the same time relief rolls of the brow of the man or woman this fall if they can shift the blame grow by leaps and bounds—there is something rotten somewho works. And congress as a whole for where. And apparently it isn’t in Denmark !—Contributed. the millions unemployed upon seems to think they are pretty good machines instead of having it log things, or it ;wouldn’t be celebrating ically placed on regulatory steps. . @

NEVADA CITY NUGGET FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 19409. OFF ON ANOTHER JOB —° THINKING OUT LOUD PAGE TWO leah ats sts eh i Shoe Nevada City Nugget Washington, Snapshots A Legal Newspaper, as defined by statute. Printed and Published at Nevada City. H.M-LEETE es ~_ Editor and Publisher * * 1879. + : SUBSCRIPTION RATES E * One year (In Advance) .........2.:.--.--2-0$2.50 ie publicans to have a try at putting By JAMES PRESTON Published Semi-Weekly, Monday and Friday at Nevada City. California, and entered as mail matter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevada City. under Act of Congress, March 3, oe ‘ (Continued From Page One) + GOT TO GO OWT’ ON AN EN — If farmers, housewives, office and factory workers, and the like, fall es will have to go up, in order that for Washington’s latest fairy story, the budget may be balanced at long they are in for some bruises—literally as well as figuratively. last. When any business adminis The latest yarn, tration attempts this there will be a hue and cry from notwithstanding hard and fast facts to the contrary, es though they is that the nation’s ills and particu due to the use of machines. And, of upon industry. It is held up before the nation as the chief producer of unemployment through the use of Democratic, To most people, such a story will seem silly on its face. It’s the story esting. And that story is this: Senator O’Mahoney of Wyoming is chairman tee, which is to hold hearings soon iled former head of a Berlin clinic, published an exhaustive study of Germany under the Nazi regime. — Facts renorted: Nazi food rations are insufficient to maintain normal resistance to disease. Deaths from rickets, tuberculosis, dipththeria, scarlet fever and childbirth have increased. Death rate of babies under one year is now double that of America: The birthrate has dropped ten per cent; the marriage rate 25 ver’tent. Cases of nervous diseases and insanity have nearly doubled. Dr. Gumpert doesn’t regard the ruthless Nazi ‘‘guns be-fore butter’’ regime as “‘infinitely rich in events.’ He voices no “Heil Hitler.” His book, in sad irony, is entitled “Heil Hunger!’’"— Contributed. on “technological unemployment’’— unemployment caused by Question—Is machines. and my father passed away recently machines and he and my mother were signers manual labor F Cre being is eredited with a years old headed, sound citizen. Answer—Under terms specified in generally fairly the California Vehicle Code, the lic hard ense is no longer Now Wash valid and 4 new ington wonders. It can’t figure out license is mandatory. Question—May I park my truck in why he should be supporting such a a green zone? A. S. Answer—Section 472 (d) of the The explanation surely couldn’t California Vehicle Code reads “Green be the facts that: (1) The Senator is. measure, WonpeRroin \. dusrr twenty of the application. C. L.— Senator O’Mahoney Carlisle in the Des Moines Register. am (operat So the senator introduces a Dill to and I license grant a tax benefit to those who use less valid? my ors): more. \ restore By CATEF E. RAYMOND CATO, California Highway Patrol of the Monopoly Commit Last week Dr. Martin Gumpert, now of New York, ex to TRAFFIC WHYS behind the story that is most inter prehension.” attempts national values which have been squandered by the dreamers and schemers of the New Deal. machines. to bring them about, they sometimes seems to surpass com who, actually erty. The day of atonement for this country will be the day when any administration, Republican or all things, most of the blame is put In his recent speech on the seventh anniversary of his accession to power, Adolf Hitler boasted: ““We look back on a seven year period infinitely rich in events. To us who were privileged not only to experience these events but who helped} those bear the brunt of all taxes, are not tax conscious because they have no prop larly its present unemployment, are Heil, Hunger! the country back on a sound economic basis. The hard way to recovery actually comes to this: the standard of living temporarily at least will have to come down. Tax up for re-election this fall; (2) indicates the time limit parking speci by fied by local ordinance.’’ Local orunions of railroad workers, and (3) dinances will specify to what time

Machine tax bill is ‘endorsed I wonder why we speak of lost horizons, one of the strongest railroad. workvehicles may park. Why do we say there are no more frontiers? Question—is it practical to use fog ers’ unions is in Cheyenne, WyomThey still exist beyond the murky shadows lights during foggy or rainy weaCensored : i. ing, the senator’s home town. Of our self pity and our self created fears. ther? W. A. 8S. It is explained that the senator Answer—tThe California Vehicle I wonder if there are any lost horizons; no matter how Editor George E. Dunn, of the Half Moon Bay Review, remote and inaccessable, if once discerned by the eye of man, simply introduced his bill to open Code mentions that fog lights can be has earned a professional! pat on the back from fellow newscan they thereafter be correctly. spoken of as “‘lost?’’ Surely the subject up for discussion. He cerused under stated conditions. The papermen aswell as approval of readers for a unique and adventurous souls will one day advance upon them and from tainly has done so. ‘For-example, inpracticability of using them would quiries are being made at his office though-compelling editorial on the war-time censorship now sky fretting escarpments. discover other and more desirable now whether the typewriters have depend largely upon the circumstances. imposed upon all newspapers in warring nations. In a recent horizons leading them on to further and greater conquests. ‘been thrown out so all his correQuestion—What is the difference spondence may be answered in long(meaning) issue, Editor Dunn left a large editorial space blank. save for between “slow” and This is singularly true of those gleaming horizons which “caution” signs. M. H. the word “censored” in large black type, and printed beneath: haunt the heart and mind of humanity; great dreamers have hand and more people employed. He is being asked whether houseAnswer—Fundamentally, ‘‘slow’’ “This blank space represents a thoughtful pause in the dreamed greatly, and their visions come to us all at times; ofwives are supposed to throw away means that under all conditions a lives of all of us. The above is common in European newsten in dreams of the night, more frequently during waking their washing and other machines dangerous condition exists, and ‘cau. papers. It is the opposite of what we cherish: freedom of hours.of serious introspection and when once clearly seen so they may réturn to the days: of tion’? means that at any time a danspeech. Censorship means dictatorship, which in turn means a they can never be forgotten. They lure us by their beauty and back-breaking labor. It is wondered gerous condition may exist. They are people ridden by hate and fear and violence. See to it that it desirability, and make demands upon our thoughts and_ efwhether he wants farmers to disfor your protection and guidance. card their tractors and reapers and Question—Can. four persons ride doesn’t happen here!”’ : forts, promising fulfillment in which each one of us may have mowers and go back to the days in the front seat of a new motor vehCenturies before Democracy became a political actuality, a part. when they had to walk behind a oneicle? D. J. horse plow and cut their crops with the immortal Dante expressed the inseparable union of free Answer—Section 596 ofthe CaliI wonder at the multiplicity of frontiers yet to be cona scythe. expression, in speech and the published word, with true humquered. There are still geographical frontiers—arctic fornia Vehicle Code does not distincontinIt is being wondered, too, whether guish between new or old automoan liberty in the sentence: ‘Give light and the people will find ents, impenetrable jungles, vast deserts the wealth, of which he wants to let factory workers stop their own way.’ Newspapers are fallible, like other human no one has ever tried to estimate; there are archeological and pushing the buttons on machines and biles. If any number of persons obstruct the vision of the driver to _institutions—sometimes wrong, sometimes even unfair in a scientific frontiers so vast as to stagger the human imaginareturn to the days of forging metal, front or sides, or interfere with the and doing a thousand and one other given instance. But so long as all men, of al! shades of opin-" tion. There are frontiers all about us; who knows? There may laborious things by hand instead of operators control of the vehicle, a person could violate ‘the law with ion, are free to think and say and write and read_ what they be frontiers in your garden, there were many in the gardens of using machines to help them. four in the front seat. choose, the people of a nation cannot long be misled on the Luther Burbank. There are The senator for some reason is befrontiers in our workshops, and Question—-Often when shopping facts of any fundamental issue. In a world where half the laboratories—who can say, there are no more frontiers. ing very quiet about all this. The downtown I park my ear alongside popylation already is at war, and half the newspaper readers reaction hasn’t been to his liking. the street curb. What puzzles me is “I see a world at peace,” said a noted American, and so Senator O’Mahoney made much, this: already stare at blank spaces and wonder blindly what the visualized a frontier which Should I give a signal when has been neglected since history for instance, of the fact that factory leaving the curb and wnat signal censor deleted, that California editor's warning, “‘See to it that began. Now as never before, the world longs for the dreamed production has risen above its Dewould it be? Mrs. J. P. O'R. it doesn’t happen here,” is none the less profound because of of land of decency, order and reconstructed human relationcember, 1929 level, while factory emAnswer—tIn this regard the law its telling simplicity.—Contributed. ships. With virile, earnest and magnetic leadership, we could ployment is not keeping step. What states. ‘*No person shall start a vehhe fails to remember, however, is cross the frontiers of peace, set up gleaming standards of libthat ‘unemployment in factories is icle stopped, standing or parked on a highway unless and until such erty, equality and fraternity and take possession in the name proportionately much smaller than movement can be made with reason -How’s Your Credit? of common humanity. in other fields. I wonder if all the heroic talés of old have found _ their For example, able safety.”’ (In View of this, and the fact that™ the latest figures The state’s business, which is every citizen's business, is gallant equal in the modern epic of Finland's struggle with show manufacturing in January, you are moving. toward the left, a 1940, the same as in January, 1929. left turn signal would be appropriate. so vast and complicated that it-is difficult to realize that it difthe mighty Russian bear. Will the language now be enlarged But the comparable figures for other Such a signal, however, must be supfers from a private individual’s business only in degree. Wheby new figures of comparison—for instance, as unjust or as groups suffer by comparison: conported by your careful observation ther credit is asked by Joe Doakes, running a three-chair barharsh as Russian peace terms. There is most certainly a dark struction is 1,225,000 lower, transof approaching vehicles and caution ber shop, or by the State of California, the question is: Are blot. which can never be effaced from the escutcheon of Rusportation 416,000 lower, mining at all times in leaving the curb.) “you good for it? Until recently California state warrants were sia; Finland has secured for herself a shining niche in_ the 302,000 lower, public utilities 165,000 ,trade and distribution 474,000. VEHICLE DIRECT OR accepted rather luctantly by bankers. But since the legislature temple of fame from which she can never-be dislodged. Perhaps, too, the senator forgets WAR NS MOTORISTS Uncle Silas says: “In the light of recent events, it may that in these fields with greater unrefused to vote new taxes, and voted to restrain relief spend. FAC E HEAVY FINES be that several new words will creep into the language—mayemployment than manufacturing the ing to the needs of the unfortunate on relief, California’s credgovernment through new laws is doit has stepped up. State Finance Director John R. Richards be dictaphobia for the disease and dictomaniacs for those who Hundreds of former residents of ing a lot of. regulating that it didn’t other states now earning their living last week told an assembly committee studying state revenue are afflicted to the extent of leaving dictographs around prodo in 1929. Farmers’ crops are being here who evade payment of Califorand taxation, that the strict economy attitude of the legislature miscucusly. —A. MERRIAM CONNER. controlled; public utilities are under nia’s motor vehicle registration and in special session “‘has had a salutary effect on the state's strict federal and state regulation; vehicle fees by registering their lions on sheer waste, political racketeering and subversive railroads still don’‘t know what wil) vehicle s in their old home state, face Assemblyman Hubert B. Scudder of that committee put penetration. : be done to them; the government has tried all sorts of artificial means the payment of fees and heavy pen California’s credit is your credit and that of your neighto. stimulate construction, and the alties dating back to the date of the the matter more forcibly in a public address. ‘California state bor. It has been bolstered because our legislators felt the will effect has been the reverse. And now employment in this state. Acting uptaxes have more than tripled: in the last six years’ he declaron instructions Howard ‘R. ed. “They jumped from less than $91,000,000 in 1933 to the of the people for practical economy. In the present interim the mining industry is being conPhilbrick, directorfrom of Motor Vehicles before the coming session, that will should be further plainly frontier with new ClO-sponsored a close check-up is to be made ‘enormous sum of $31 1,850,000 for 1939. of all I believe that if legislation which would. put. federal Suspected vehicles by officers of the taxes were allowed to triple again in the next six years the expressed, so that no legislator need be in doubt as to what his inspectors in the mines. California highway patrol it was anworking, ‘ ying people of California would be robbed of district. desires —Contributed. ‘No wonder unemployment is off nounced today. in these industries. The interesting everything they possess by tax-confiscation!"’ Assemblyman a Any non-resident owner of a veh_ PAYROLLS AND DOLES thing Scudder points out further that legislative curbing of relief ‘ spending has not denied sustenance and shelter to the deserv-. : is that factories are only 51,000 below 1929 despite such things as the Wage-Hour law, the WalshHealey Act, and so on and on. It icle accepting gainful employment within California is considered a resi. California business is stepping up! One major airplane dent under the terms of section 216° ing, but has denied Communist-controlled pressure groups factory has a backlog of orders exceeding $150,000,0 00. Farof the California vehicle code. their access to tax-supplied slush funds for subversive troublemers, during '39, got back some of the money they lost in ’38. would seem that the manufacturing industry is entitled to credit rather Brunswick-OColumbia-Victor making and sabotage toward destruction of the American way Building ‘is on the upgrade. Factory Recpayrolls, last year, were than .condemnation. ords. The Harmony Shop, Grass Valof life. up . 1 per cent over 1938. Seven per cent more workers were An interesting sidelight on the ley. California's credit was in dire need of a “salutary effect!’’ employed; weekly earnings rose 4 per cent, and hourly wage subject of machines is that Congress e It is one thinto g tax and spend for essential governmental averages rose to 75.9 cents. —both senate and house—has votthe 150th annive rsary of the first services—and quite another thing-to-squander tens of mil-. But also, during 1939, the number of persons on relief ed unanimously to hold a special patents law signed by George Washcelebration of patents on April 10, 107 mim street Nevada County Photo Center a PHONE 67 aS BDrorcensprer : oa Grass Valley Portraits, Commercial Photography, 8 Hour Kodak Finishing, Old Copies, _ Enlarging and Framing; Kodaks and Photo Supplies, _Movie Cameras and Films in California increased 78 per cent! zoomed skyward. s And the cost of relief which the President will designate ington. A lot of Washingtonians wonder if ° _ as ‘Inventors’ and Patents Day.” the current agitation might not be When payrolls grow, transferring thousands of unemPatented devices,» most of them, political. The political future will be ployed to self-supporting jobs and automatically lessening the go far toward decreasing the sweat a lot brighter for many candidates need for relief spending — yet at the same time relief rolls of the brow of the man or woman this fall if they can shift the blame grow by leaps and bounds—there is something rotten somewho works. And congress as a whole for where. And apparently it isn’t in Denmark !—Contributed. the millions unemployed upon seems to think they are pretty good machines instead of having it log things, or it ;wouldn’t be celebrating ically placed on regulatory steps. . @