March 31, 1950 (8 pages)

aa Ree zp et te a * crowding of existing facilities. ~ ‘how eloquent, to convince Nevada City voters that their * seau. 2—The Nevada City Nugget, Friday, March 31, 1950 Nevada City Nugget 305 Broad Street — Nevada City, California Telephone 36 J. WILSON McKENNEY and KENNETH W. WRAY : Editors and Publishers Ifember California Newspaper Publishers Association . Published every Friday at Nevada City, California, and . entered as second class matter in the postoffice at Ne. vada City under.act of Congress March 3, 1879. Sub. scription rates: one year outside county $3; one year in . county $2.50; four months $1 (invariably paid in advance). . Advertising rates on request. wee . IS SIZE ALONE A MEASURE OF QUALITY? Size does not necessarily improve quality. But we . Californians seem to go for the gargantuan; the biggest . trees, the highest mountains, the largest oranges, etc. . The tendency to bow down to bigness seems to have even reached into school administration. In fact there may be some merit in combining small tural schools under a single administration to create the . so-called unified district. Consolidations of this kind have been effected for the past several years in the belief that bigger buildings and larger faculties can train better minds. And maybe the educators are right. _. However, there have been numerous cases in the school consolidation movement where communities and districts have fough to retain their individualism and a measure of self-control. Right or not, there is a general distrust among laymen’ for the educational institution which grows so large it may not be controlled. The larger schools, for instance, require the employment of professional administrators wo demand and eventually get a larger measure of control and the details of management slip irom the hands of citizen-trustees. Experimental methods of teaching and discard of fundamental American concepts often creep into the classroom as a result. We do not suggest the larger schools are inadequate or Communist simply because of their size nor does it follow that we oppose discussion of a consolidated high . school district for Nevada City and Grass Valley. But . we should weigh the evidence carefully if the issue again comes before us. Evidence of some degree of laxness in the administra. tion of Nevada City’s high school in recent years should . not be the signal to condemn the present plant, staff and control. In fact the very methods of vigilant investigation and public discussion which remedied a weakness . here might be impossible in a larger institution. Criti. cism of school administration (or any other unit of dem. ocratic government) is a normal right of the citizen. School people are not above surveillance and their duties and responsibilities are actually made lighter when they . must answer to the inquiries of patrons and voters. Whatever weakness may have appeared in local administration has been strengthened. Muscle has been added— and wisdom, too—without the need of dismemberment or amputation. The best single argument for unification is the overIn many parts. of: the state where elementary schools were using double sessions in order to take care of vastly increased enrollments, it was logical to create junior high school units in order to relieve pressure on both elementary and high school plants. Such a condition does not yet exist here. It will be extremely difficult for any spokesman, no matter own high school should be abandoned in its present form and that their students should be sent to a larger school located in more populous Grass Valley.—jwm. The interests of childhood and youth are the interests ‘of mankind.—Janes. What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child that must the community want for all its children. —John Dewey. The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to lose time in order to gain it—RousIt is better to bind your children to you by respect and gentleness, than by fear.—Terence. .Wh6 feels injustice; who shrinks before a slight; who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy ?—Thackeray. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their -own suspicions, than they could be by the perfidy of -others.—Burke. Society is built on trust, and trust upon confidence in one another's integrity —South. Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful——Fosdick. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; r . . . the social and economic groups into which they fall. . Republican party to quite trying to be a pale reflection LL OLS SP LL RRR PT ey ee eb nat meaner ’ Will It Do the Trick, Sam? Just Wonderin’ . I] Wonder when the storm clouds lower . And dreary winter rains are falling, While from each peak and mountain crest, . The thunder gods are loudly calling, . How sure we are that clouds will break, ! And storm’s wild tumult cease, And that beneath blue smiling skies Our world will feel the kiss of peace. The reasoning human adult is not unduly dismayed 'when a storm invades his homeland. It may be a wild . storm with pelting rain, howling wind and the incessant roar of thunder, but le never doubts that it will pass. He knows that in time the clouds will roll away and that the ‘warm rays of the sun will shine down upon a world washed and made clean. » PENT, eee reece eee BURL — wise human knows that soon it will melt and so increase the flow of streams and rivers and that it will leave in its wake the opportunities for which he waits. oe ee eee er rf the fields and gardens; soon thereafter, roses will twine about his windows and big yellow blossoms will grace . the pumpkin vines—in fact, he knows and _ therefore . . . . Soon he will be cultivating the brown soil and planting never doubts that spring will take over and that the cycle SES eee will repeat itself as it has time without end. After 18 years of defeat and discouragement, of fumbling and frustration, the Republican party can regain its political potency if it will cast itself, honestly, intellicently and fearlessly, in a new role—that of champion! The processes of growth and development are quiet of the great middle class, which is the very backbone of . and orderly, both in the realm of nature and of human the nation. . effort, they work in a mysterious way their wonders to perform; they do not bluster, they do not shout discord. antly and they do come in due season both to the affairs . of nature and of man. i Even as spring comes to the material earth, may it not come in like fashion to the human mind? The Republican” party, if it is going to survive, must become the defender and the voice of the comparatively unrepresented, unorganized and inarticulate millions who <a are provident and self-reliant, who owns farms or urban’) At the present time our nationat capitol is hag ridden homes, who protect their credit and pay their taxes, who . by storms; lightning flashes and thunder reverberates. educate their children and pay their doctor's bills—with. It is quite awful, that storm and it makes a spectacle at. out seeking special preferment from the government for which decent people stare with mingled feelings of regret and shame. Little men, entrusted with.affairs of state, ‘take time out to charge and counter charge, to vituperate, 'denounce and redenounce. The katy-did chorus is in ‘full swing and woe to the fair reputation which gets in , . its pathway. The Democratic party is vividly and indeliby stamped Wiky. <shoulan ghee. Mieraeetulomyestwations Be as the party of the trade union leaders and bosses, of a ae: those desiring favor and subsidy from the government, oe public while in the making? For the sake of those = ‘innocent folk who may be smeared, let the ghastly preof those glad to have the government assume an increas-. }._._; aia : Teas '_liminaries take place behind closed doors. Communists ingly greater part of their responsibilities. . everywhere must be laughing up their sleeves at these They are ignorant or heedless of the price they will. demonstrations of democracy. Why give them so much have to pay, in dollars and in terms of personal liberty . satisfaction? for these favors. But they are not the more thoughtful, . The st ill , wh ll party advantages hav independent-thinking members of the rank and file of . oe a ee ee ee a : ib ighed in the bal d safely filed away, Washtrade unions; they are not the tens of thousands of own. sptaiiiier tama oak ata uig oleae desea P as o. ‘ca ‘ . ington will return to a certain degree of sanity and there ers of small farms who are deeply apprehensive that the} —: : ' will be a calm to follow the outrageous. storm. government catering so assiduously to them may go. . broke doing so; they are not the white collar workers Perhaps the little men in the Nation’s Capitol will do and the professional people to whom self-reliance and . some of that housecleaning which Mr. Hoover declares thrift means virtue. They may, some of them, be in the . to be fifty years overdue. The admission of half a ‘cen“middle income group,’ but they are not what is meant . tury’s neglect does not add to the white fame of either by the great middle class. party; the Democrats should dash right in with mops and brooms and disinfectants and clean the place from cellar to garret. I wonder if they will be so astute. This class, the great middle class that is the bulwark of a democracy, now has no political party to which it can turn. The Republican party is the party to which this class could turn, almost en masse. But first the Republican party has to do. something about itself. On the one hand, Oh, well, the storm will pass, so let’s not be too unduly it must disabuse the minds of the Aimerican people of . dismayed. The ship of state has weathered worse things the last vestige of suspicion that it is the party of privi-. than ‘the present unseemly manifestations of man’s inlege, that it isa politico-social group presided over by the! sufficiency and it will weather many another. As the well-to-do; that its councils are dominated by those who . darkey preacher said of the good ship religion, our ship think that money alone can win elections. of state will go right on sailing, “‘bekase it is founded upon a rock.” ADELINE MERRIAM CONNER: Paradoxically, the Republican party must, on the other hand, shed its hair shirt of political timidity. — It cannot be for more efficient, more economical administration of government in only a half-hearted, almost cowardly way for fear of stepping on the toes of some of the groups to which the Democrats have ladled out concessions, subsidies and special benefits—at the cost of an enormous tax burden, which falls particularly heavily on the great middle class. Ticklers By George The Republican party, by its tactics and policies, has lost presidential elections and respect since 1932. It is time for it to quit rememberxing that it was once fat and rich, to quit feeling sorry for itself. It is time for the of the New Deal and the so-called Fair Deal in some respects, while pretending it offérs a practical political alternative to a party that has fooled a great many people . : for quite a while into believing that the government can give something for nothing. The great middle class is concerned over the way in which this country is heading—toward more oppressive taxation and greater debt, toward more intrusion of the government into the lives of the people, toward even greater restriction on the individual's liberty to spend his earnings as he chooses. The Republican party should take off the kid gloves and show, really, it is going to fight this trend. It could not do any worse than it has in the past.—Scissored from the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being “I wonder what happened to our waiter? 1 told him § . friend to one; enemy to none.—Benjamin Franklin. taken for ordinary.—Jeffrey. > a} was so hungry I could eat one of them Texas longhorns!"’ : ee es een er mre ne ae a) When winter snow covers the familiar landscapes, the » ~

aa Ree zp et te a * crowding of existing facilities. ~ ‘how eloquent, to convince Nevada City voters that their * seau. 2—The Nevada City Nugget, Friday, March 31, 1950 Nevada City Nugget 305 Broad Street — Nevada City, California Telephone 36 J. WILSON McKENNEY and KENNETH W. WRAY : Editors and Publishers Ifember California Newspaper Publishers Association . Published every Friday at Nevada City, California, and . entered as second class matter in the postoffice at Ne. vada City under.act of Congress March 3, 1879. Sub. scription rates: one year outside county $3; one year in . county $2.50; four months $1 (invariably paid in advance). . Advertising rates on request. wee . IS SIZE ALONE A MEASURE OF QUALITY? Size does not necessarily improve quality. But we . Californians seem to go for the gargantuan; the biggest . trees, the highest mountains, the largest oranges, etc. . The tendency to bow down to bigness seems to have even reached into school administration. In fact there may be some merit in combining small tural schools under a single administration to create the . so-called unified district. Consolidations of this kind have been effected for the past several years in the belief that bigger buildings and larger faculties can train better minds. And maybe the educators are right. _. However, there have been numerous cases in the school consolidation movement where communities and districts have fough to retain their individualism and a measure of self-control. Right or not, there is a general distrust among laymen’ for the educational institution which grows so large it may not be controlled. The larger schools, for instance, require the employment of professional administrators wo demand and eventually get a larger measure of control and the details of management slip irom the hands of citizen-trustees. Experimental methods of teaching and discard of fundamental American concepts often creep into the classroom as a result. We do not suggest the larger schools are inadequate or Communist simply because of their size nor does it follow that we oppose discussion of a consolidated high . school district for Nevada City and Grass Valley. But . we should weigh the evidence carefully if the issue again comes before us. Evidence of some degree of laxness in the administra. tion of Nevada City’s high school in recent years should . not be the signal to condemn the present plant, staff and control. In fact the very methods of vigilant investigation and public discussion which remedied a weakness . here might be impossible in a larger institution. Criti. cism of school administration (or any other unit of dem. ocratic government) is a normal right of the citizen. School people are not above surveillance and their duties and responsibilities are actually made lighter when they . must answer to the inquiries of patrons and voters. Whatever weakness may have appeared in local administration has been strengthened. Muscle has been added— and wisdom, too—without the need of dismemberment or amputation. The best single argument for unification is the overIn many parts. of: the state where elementary schools were using double sessions in order to take care of vastly increased enrollments, it was logical to create junior high school units in order to relieve pressure on both elementary and high school plants. Such a condition does not yet exist here. It will be extremely difficult for any spokesman, no matter own high school should be abandoned in its present form and that their students should be sent to a larger school located in more populous Grass Valley.—jwm. The interests of childhood and youth are the interests ‘of mankind.—Janes. What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child that must the community want for all its children. —John Dewey. The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to lose time in order to gain it—RousIt is better to bind your children to you by respect and gentleness, than by fear.—Terence. .Wh6 feels injustice; who shrinks before a slight; who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy ?—Thackeray. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their -own suspicions, than they could be by the perfidy of -others.—Burke. Society is built on trust, and trust upon confidence in one another's integrity —South. Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful——Fosdick. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; r . . . the social and economic groups into which they fall. . Republican party to quite trying to be a pale reflection LL OLS SP LL RRR PT ey ee eb nat meaner ’ Will It Do the Trick, Sam? Just Wonderin’ . I] Wonder when the storm clouds lower . And dreary winter rains are falling, While from each peak and mountain crest, . The thunder gods are loudly calling, . How sure we are that clouds will break, ! And storm’s wild tumult cease, And that beneath blue smiling skies Our world will feel the kiss of peace. The reasoning human adult is not unduly dismayed 'when a storm invades his homeland. It may be a wild . storm with pelting rain, howling wind and the incessant roar of thunder, but le never doubts that it will pass. He knows that in time the clouds will roll away and that the ‘warm rays of the sun will shine down upon a world washed and made clean. » PENT, eee reece

eee BURL — wise human knows that soon it will melt and so increase the flow of streams and rivers and that it will leave in its wake the opportunities for which he waits. oe ee eee er rf the fields and gardens; soon thereafter, roses will twine about his windows and big yellow blossoms will grace . the pumpkin vines—in fact, he knows and _ therefore . . . . Soon he will be cultivating the brown soil and planting never doubts that spring will take over and that the cycle SES eee will repeat itself as it has time without end. After 18 years of defeat and discouragement, of fumbling and frustration, the Republican party can regain its political potency if it will cast itself, honestly, intellicently and fearlessly, in a new role—that of champion! The processes of growth and development are quiet of the great middle class, which is the very backbone of . and orderly, both in the realm of nature and of human the nation. . effort, they work in a mysterious way their wonders to perform; they do not bluster, they do not shout discord. antly and they do come in due season both to the affairs . of nature and of man. i Even as spring comes to the material earth, may it not come in like fashion to the human mind? The Republican” party, if it is going to survive, must become the defender and the voice of the comparatively unrepresented, unorganized and inarticulate millions who <a are provident and self-reliant, who owns farms or urban’) At the present time our nationat capitol is hag ridden homes, who protect their credit and pay their taxes, who . by storms; lightning flashes and thunder reverberates. educate their children and pay their doctor's bills—with. It is quite awful, that storm and it makes a spectacle at. out seeking special preferment from the government for which decent people stare with mingled feelings of regret and shame. Little men, entrusted with.affairs of state, ‘take time out to charge and counter charge, to vituperate, 'denounce and redenounce. The katy-did chorus is in ‘full swing and woe to the fair reputation which gets in , . its pathway. The Democratic party is vividly and indeliby stamped Wiky. <shoulan ghee. Mieraeetulomyestwations Be as the party of the trade union leaders and bosses, of a ae: those desiring favor and subsidy from the government, oe public while in the making? For the sake of those = ‘innocent folk who may be smeared, let the ghastly preof those glad to have the government assume an increas-. }._._; aia : Teas '_liminaries take place behind closed doors. Communists ingly greater part of their responsibilities. . everywhere must be laughing up their sleeves at these They are ignorant or heedless of the price they will. demonstrations of democracy. Why give them so much have to pay, in dollars and in terms of personal liberty . satisfaction? for these favors. But they are not the more thoughtful, . The st ill , wh ll party advantages hav independent-thinking members of the rank and file of . oe a ee ee ee a : ib ighed in the bal d safely filed away, Washtrade unions; they are not the tens of thousands of own. sptaiiiier tama oak ata uig oleae desea P as o. ‘ca ‘ . ington will return to a certain degree of sanity and there ers of small farms who are deeply apprehensive that the} —: : ' will be a calm to follow the outrageous. storm. government catering so assiduously to them may go. . broke doing so; they are not the white collar workers Perhaps the little men in the Nation’s Capitol will do and the professional people to whom self-reliance and . some of that housecleaning which Mr. Hoover declares thrift means virtue. They may, some of them, be in the . to be fifty years overdue. The admission of half a ‘cen“middle income group,’ but they are not what is meant . tury’s neglect does not add to the white fame of either by the great middle class. party; the Democrats should dash right in with mops and brooms and disinfectants and clean the place from cellar to garret. I wonder if they will be so astute. This class, the great middle class that is the bulwark of a democracy, now has no political party to which it can turn. The Republican party is the party to which this class could turn, almost en masse. But first the Republican party has to do. something about itself. On the one hand, Oh, well, the storm will pass, so let’s not be too unduly it must disabuse the minds of the Aimerican people of . dismayed. The ship of state has weathered worse things the last vestige of suspicion that it is the party of privi-. than ‘the present unseemly manifestations of man’s inlege, that it isa politico-social group presided over by the! sufficiency and it will weather many another. As the well-to-do; that its councils are dominated by those who . darkey preacher said of the good ship religion, our ship think that money alone can win elections. of state will go right on sailing, “‘bekase it is founded upon a rock.” ADELINE MERRIAM CONNER: Paradoxically, the Republican party must, on the other hand, shed its hair shirt of political timidity. — It cannot be for more efficient, more economical administration of government in only a half-hearted, almost cowardly way for fear of stepping on the toes of some of the groups to which the Democrats have ladled out concessions, subsidies and special benefits—at the cost of an enormous tax burden, which falls particularly heavily on the great middle class. Ticklers By George The Republican party, by its tactics and policies, has lost presidential elections and respect since 1932. It is time for it to quit rememberxing that it was once fat and rich, to quit feeling sorry for itself. It is time for the of the New Deal and the so-called Fair Deal in some respects, while pretending it offérs a practical political alternative to a party that has fooled a great many people . : for quite a while into believing that the government can give something for nothing. The great middle class is concerned over the way in which this country is heading—toward more oppressive taxation and greater debt, toward more intrusion of the government into the lives of the people, toward even greater restriction on the individual's liberty to spend his earnings as he chooses. The Republican party should take off the kid gloves and show, really, it is going to fight this trend. It could not do any worse than it has in the past.—Scissored from the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being “I wonder what happened to our waiter? 1 told him § . friend to one; enemy to none.—Benjamin Franklin. taken for ordinary.—Jeffrey. > a} was so hungry I could eat one of them Texas longhorns!"’ : ee es een er mre ne ae a) When winter snow covers the familiar landscapes, the » ~