March 8, 1935 (8 pages)

FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1935. _ Nevada City Nugget 205 Broad Street. Phone 36 _A Legal Newspaper, as defined by statute. lished at Nevada City. Printed and PubEditor and Publisher Published Semi-weekly, Monday and Friday at Nevada City, California, and entered as mail matfa city,, under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. = SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year (In Advance) ter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevada > THE SNOOPER’S DELIGHT Section 55 (b) of the Revenue Act of 1934 requires that all persons making income tax returns must summarize those returns for posting in United States Postoffices or other pubjic places, so that all may examine the financial condition thereby revealed. This section of the act might appropriately be named “The snooper’s delight.” Paul Pry, Dame Rumor and Goody Gossip may descend like a flock of buzzards upon these posted reports and occupy their abundant leisure in hashing over: the items of their more forunate neighbors’ private affairs. The professional man whose income tax statement is low will be compared with his. professional competitor who pays a larger tax. The man reputedly rich whose income statement is low will be dubbed a liar, and scriptomaniacs will begin a series of anonymous letters to the revenue collector, calling attention to presumed tax evasions. Business firms fighting their way upward against stiff competition will be revealed in their percuniary nakedness to their rivals. Worst of all, those able to instantly become a target for of the underworld. report substantial incomes will the racketeeers and kidnapers Private income earned either in professional or business life is the private affair of the men and women who earn it. This section 55 (b) of the 1934 Revenue Act puts a gang of snoopers, or worse, on their trail. The curious, the envious and the criminal are served, but no self-respecting . benefit. citizen will There is now a movement afoot to secure the repeal of this vicious section. An organization, “Sentinels of the Republic,” has been formed. It is appealing to newspapers throughout the country to expose the faults of this measure ‘and assist in its repeal. If convinced that this measure should be repealed, the best way to assist this movement is to write or wire your protest to your congressman or senator. And, don't procrastinate. IBETWEEN THE LINES By Alexander McNulty In view of. the undeniable _ fact ‘that public opinion is for the moment at least, leaning toward a mild conservatism; it ficult to hazard a guess on form public utility bills now before Congress will finally be . enacted. The proposed legislation in its present form is bitterly opposed by the utilities themselves, by organized business in general and. by various organizations of public utility securities ho]ders—people who are threatened with the destruction of the value of such securities in the event of unfavorable legislation. In general, feeling against the utilities is hostile. Remembering only the excesses and abuses, real and fancied, committed by these companies, it is easy to forget the very important part played by this highly complex industry in the development of our whole industrial system. It would be idl@ to contend inat abuses have not been committed; abuses in corporate finance, abuses what in rate structures and what has hurt} the utility companies more than any other thing, a bellicose attitude toward constituted authority in its efforis to curb or regulate such abuses. Long ago, it was said by men qualified to speak on the subject that ‘‘the greatest enemies of the holding companies are not the critics who point out its present abuses but rather those business men who stubbornly resist all efforts to bring it undcr governmental control.’ Provcrly guided and limited, the. holding company, in its ability to furnish the various necessary ser‘Wices to its subsidiary. companies, is an extremely useful institution., The fact should not be overlooked that _-guch excesses and abuses as were ‘committed by utility holding companies were likewise committed in every line of business. It was the order of the day. Consider now the plight of the ‘privately owned utilities. Because of their previous highhanded and uncompromising attitude they have as an _ implacable enemy the powerful Federal Trade Commission. Years of depression at have depleted cash reserves, an vitable obsolenscence of plan and nereased taxation and a treurden of fixed charges in ‘outstanding debt make is somewhat dif-, . tection. SERA REMAINS ON FULL. TIME NEVADA COUN reductions . . There will be no jty SERA workers as was at first ‘reduction in the budget ordered by state headquarters was nounced. The SERA workers in this county will be re-investigated and re-certified and only thosé able to do a days work will be retained. The ' disabled or partly disabled will be i dropped from the roll and relief for ithem will come from some _ other ‘source rather than the SERA allot;ment. In the past these disabled men ‘were given such positions as. flagjmen, etc., but it developed that there were more flagmen than posts for . them to Ti}. . The administration department of lthe ‘county SERA will continue on the reduction declared by state heaa;quarters, there being no budget adjustments for the members of this section. : é The payroll for the county for the week ending February 14 was $8100 which represents about the highest salary and wage disbursement dur‘ing the time of the SERA in this county. reduction of rdtes without a tremendously expanded increase in output impossible. Even if a ready market for such -an increase in output ex‘isted, and it does not, the utility companies could not supply it for ‘the simple reason that under exist, ing conditions the investing public ' would not supply the capital to mod/ernize and rebuild the system ona {scale that would be required. . In this dilemma, the privately owned utilities are faced with the . bogey of the most modern of publicily built and owned systems, conceived and put into operation for the ; express purpose. of demonstrating . how much existing rates can be lowered. . There should be some way out of ; this difficult situation rather than . by confiscation or wholesale destruc. tion of existing values. The people . who invested their capital in good ; faith should have a measure of proThe men who built the} utility system to. its. present high standard are capable, given the opportunity and faciities, of meeting any conditions that may prevail. The middle course is best. Eliminate the bad and retain the good features in private enterprise and the inevitable sequence of events in our rapidly moving world will bring an adjustment fair to all. : é first aneasamne / Now, Now! my GOOD LAD---REMEMGER 1m tp WEL as Sa es * HERE IS A SHINY © NEW NICKEL ---NOW WHAT COULD pote Gear, ? : WELL:: ~ER< A-_A SHINY NEW WELL HERE WE ARE™\ JUST SET THEM DOWN; ‘ ANDO I WiLL PAY i You ila FORESTRY SERVICE GETS CARLOAD OF POWDER The Forest Service Monday recejyed a carload of powder for use in its various road building projects. Much of this powder will be used in e¢onstructing the road which follows Ponderosa Way. About one carload, or ten tons, of powder is used ‘month. ly. Supervisor R. L. P. Bigelow of the Tahoe National Forest Area ig in Sacramento and will be away from his office in this city for most of March. He is available in Sacramento for consultation in regard to epoordination measures planned by the State and Federal authorities for the prevention of forest fires. IMPROVED BUSINESS ~— CONDITION OBSERVED ‘wedding gown? She had slipped it on ‘surreptitiously, before leaving home, BOOK CHATS i ell feeling that it would be more approi priate than either of the cheap, dark ‘cotton frocks which the selfish Aunt ‘Sade had bought for her. Having It requires infinite courage to lay: q pee © Beto ~ ‘whacked off a goodly portion of the before the _ indiffirent, sympathetic; ,. Z 5 ‘Skirt to shorten it, she again attachor sneering public the stor : 's . (pica ae sd deans © peary ns one Sed it to the waist. But alas! her life. But this is done daringly and. stitches were. aivthing buthonestly. in Doctor Helen MacKnight ' 7 ges hate Sa et iCame her time to recite. Up went Doyle’s autobi aphy, i ¢ cen SREY) O ss PPE? hee hand in a practiced gesture. And ‘rip went the dress, 1 i rThat Nellie, as the doctor was ’ © ao ee i ous display of F christened, was sired by a certain’ play o pop ebaboae! Smith MacKnight, was no reason fos . It was after this humiliating event hiding from the world the fact of his /t#@t Nellie journeyed with Aunt neglect for his family,, his selfish--M@TY and her family from New York ness tyranny, and his visits to the, tate to Dakota. Here, the chitd lagisos aud poker table: :found a new life on the broad, windy. The breaking up.of Nellie’s first Prairie. home in Pennsylvania, her father’s} ‘My heart was filled to bursting departure, with his surveying fn. With happiness,’? writes the doctor. {struments, for Bodie, California, her . My self-respect and capacity for af;temporarily happy life with Granq. fection had been stunted like some ;mother MacKnight, her mother’s’ Plant that had been shut away from . tragic death, her years as Cinderetla the sunlight and as the warming rays lin her unele’s household; and how . °f kindness shone in the place what (By Abigail J. Stackpole) of ‘the child found herself the glass slip. had been sad and dark so long, I ‘hours per week for the Nevada Coun-/Per of release and happiness via a felt transformed. ,four-mile trek to Aunt Mary’s farm . Those brave pioneers of tfte prairie (and beautifully, leaving the reader, breaking virgin soil, planting and with moist.eyes and an ache in the . harvesting their crops, and the vegeIthroat. ‘tation of a new spring, the drought, ! 3ut along with the heart throbs;the prairie fire, and then a cyclone— jthere are many laughs. ‘what impressions these events made ; What could be more humorous or: Upon the child! ;pathetic than the incident of little . At thirteen Nellie joined her fath(Nellie’s appearance at the school ener in Inyo County. And because o tertainment, dressed in her mother’s his selfishness and tyranny, the gir! ‘ ' Condit g = my as revealed in a government survey be. Buy, build or modernize witha Bank of America LOAN Thoughtful thousands are now repairing or modernizing their homes, business structures, and farm buildings—or buying and building new residential property through loans uniter the Natwnal Housing Ad—on one of the most convenient and practical plans of repayment ever offered. Bank of America is cooperating wholeheartedly with the government's great building program through its 424 branches in 256 California communities, Obtain l was anything but happy. i} % : . Harshly as MacKnight treated his . . daughter, he deserves credit for -rec-! . ognizing the splendid material he had to deal with. The creat Mojave country would never have had its “Angel of Mercy”’ had not old MacKnight commanded that Nellie become either ‘‘a lawyer or a doctor.’ Before she was old enough ‘to practice medicine, the young lady had become a full-fledged ‘‘physician and surgeon” as her shingle testified a year later. After an interneship at a San Francisco hospital,’ Doctor Helen MacKnight, as she was now known, began her desert practice which lasted for many years. Through a visit 'to the sick bed of a sheepherder’s wife, Doctor MacKnight met and married young Doctor Doyle of the Rush School ot Medicine, in Chicago. With him she continued her practice, even after she had borne two children. The style of this book is easy, delightful, and often lyrical. Srlendid are the descriptions of life on a New ‘England farm, work in a corset facthought when. the twenty per cent. ——all these events’ are told vividly . tending their horses and cattle, and ‘TY, the prairie—both in the cold i. . Mr. F. H. Horswill, of San Fran. ie¢isco, Safety Engineer of the State ‘Compensation Insurance Fund wag in Nevada City Wednesday in the in.° 'terests of the state compensation de;partment. Mr. Horswill stated that in his travels throughout the state ha lsees a great increase of business. ‘Through his. observations he believes there was between 25 and 30 per jcent increase in. all classes of business in 1934 over 1938. FORESTERS ORDER IS INVOLVED IN SUIT The Grand Court of California, . Foresters of America, has brought \suit-against Court Cristoforo ColumIbo of Nevada City and Cotrt Pride jof Grass Valley. The action, begun \in San Francisco, has been transfer. red to the Superior Court of this county for trial. The suit follows the movement of two years ago when the local courts withdrew and refused to recognize the jurisdiction of the state grand court. Involved, according to the complaint, is about $3,000, which the grand court alleges is in~ the {hands of the local courts and which the grand court claims. Officers of both Grass Valley. and Nevada City Foresters Courts are named as defendants. of winter and in the heat of summer, the desert, mining activities, and San Francisco before the earthquake and fire. We shall look for more human-interest stories from the pen of this talented -writer. A Child Goes Forth, House, N.Y. Price $3. Gothan . NEW? !anovations Service Comfort itt i pene eT it a RUNNING ICE WATER IN ALL ROOMS FAMOUSLY SOFT BEDS With Bath . . ahaa ol: GARAGE SERVICE AT HARVEY M. Toy, MANAGING-OWNER 350 Attractive Cheerful Rooms THE MOST convenient THE BEST accommodations THE FINEST meale DOOR complete information at any branch. _ BANK of AMERICA NAL TRUST & SAVINGS ASSOCIATION Ludwig Netz P.O. BOX 284 FACTORY S%. —, NEVADA CITY Our granite, dignified in its lustrous black eolor with an almost white background to show up lettering and carving, is fitting. tribute to the memory of your departed loved ones. We make all _tynes of designs from the simple nlarker to thé more elaborate monuments. Prices are remarkably reasonable and all work is done to your satisfaction, Order now for Memorial Day, ; / Associ Nevad: agains title t the M

FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1935. _ Nevada City Nugget 205 Broad Street. Phone 36 _A Legal Newspaper, as defined by statute. lished at Nevada City. Printed and PubEditor and Publisher Published Semi-weekly, Monday and Friday at Nevada City, California, and entered as mail matfa city,, under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.. = SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year (In Advance) ter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevada > THE SNOOPER’S DELIGHT Section 55 (b) of the Revenue Act of 1934 requires that all persons making income tax returns must summarize those returns for posting in United States Postoffices or other pubjic places, so that all may examine the financial condition thereby revealed. This section of the act might appropriately be named “The snooper’s delight.” Paul Pry, Dame Rumor and Goody Gossip may descend like a flock of buzzards upon these posted reports and occupy their abundant leisure in hashing over: the items of their more forunate neighbors’ private affairs. The professional man whose income tax statement is low will be compared with his. professional competitor who pays a larger tax. The man reputedly rich whose income statement is low will be dubbed a liar, and scriptomaniacs will begin a series of anonymous letters to the revenue collector, calling attention to presumed tax evasions. Business firms fighting their way upward against stiff competition will be revealed in their percuniary nakedness to their rivals. Worst of all, those able to instantly become a target for of the underworld. report substantial incomes will the racketeeers and kidnapers Private income earned either in professional or business life is the private affair of the men and women who earn it. This section 55 (b) of the 1934 Revenue Act puts a gang of snoopers, or worse, on their trail. The curious, the envious and the criminal are served, but no self-respecting . benefit. citizen will There is now a movement afoot to secure the repeal of this vicious section. An organization, “Sentinels of the Republic,” has been formed. It is appealing to newspapers throughout the country to expose the faults of this measure ‘and assist in its repeal. If convinced that this measure should be repealed, the best way to assist this movement is to write or wire your protest to your congressman or senator. And, don't procrastinate. IBETWEEN THE LINES By Alexander McNulty In view of. the undeniable _ fact ‘that public opinion is for the moment at least, leaning toward a mild conservatism; it ficult to hazard a guess on form public utility bills now before Congress will finally be . enacted. The proposed legislation in its present form is bitterly opposed by the utilities themselves, by organized business in general and. by various organizations of public utility securities ho]ders—people who are threatened with the destruction of the value of such securities in the event of unfavorable legislation. In general, feeling against the utilities is hostile. Remembering only the excesses and abuses, real and fancied, committed by these companies, it is easy to forget the very important part played by this highly complex industry in the development of our whole industrial system. It would be idl@ to contend inat abuses have not been committed; abuses in corporate finance, abuses what in rate structures and what has hurt} the utility companies more than any other thing, a bellicose attitude toward constituted authority in its efforis to curb or regulate such abuses. Long ago, it was said by men qualified to speak on the subject that ‘‘the greatest enemies of the holding companies are not the critics who point out its present abuses but rather those business men who stubbornly resist all efforts to bring it undcr governmental control.’ Provcrly guided and limited, the. holding company, in its ability to furnish the various necessary ser‘Wices to its subsidiary. companies, is an extremely useful institution., The fact should not be overlooked that _-guch excesses and abuses as were ‘committed by utility holding companies were likewise committed in every line of business. It was the order of the day. Consider now the plight of the ‘privately owned utilities. Because of their previous highhanded and uncompromising attitude they have as an _ implacable enemy the powerful Federal Trade Commission. Years of depression at have depleted cash reserves, an vitable obsolenscence of plan and nereased taxation and a treurden of fixed charges in ‘outstanding debt make is somewhat dif-, . tection. SERA REMAINS ON FULL. TIME NEVADA COUN reductions . . There will be no jty SERA workers as was at first ‘reduction in the budget ordered by state headquarters was nounced. The SERA workers in this county will be re-investigated and re-certified and only thosé able to do a days work will be retained. The ' disabled or partly disabled will be i dropped from the roll and relief for ithem will come from some _ other ‘source rather than the SERA allot;ment. In the past these disabled men ‘were given such positions as. flagjmen, etc., but it developed that there were more flagmen than posts for . them to Ti}. . The administration department of lthe ‘county SERA will continue on the reduction declared by state heaa;quarters, there being no budget adjustments for the members of this section. : é The payroll for the county for the week ending February 14 was $8100 which represents about the highest salary and wage disbursement dur‘ing the time of the SERA in this county. reduction of rdtes without a tremendously expanded increase in output impossible. Even if a ready market for such -an increase in output ex‘isted, and it does not, the utility companies could not supply it for ‘the simple reason that under exist, ing conditions the investing public ' would not supply the capital to mod/ernize and rebuild the system ona {scale that would be required. . In this dilemma, the privately owned utilities are faced with the . bogey of the most modern of publicily built and owned systems, conceived and put into operation for the ; express purpose. of demonstrating . how much existing rates can be lowered. . There should be some way out of ; this difficult situation rather than . by confiscation or wholesale destruc. tion of existing values. The people . who invested their capital in good ; faith should have a measure of proThe men who built the} utility system to. its. present high standard are capable, given the opportunity and faciities, of meeting any conditions that may prevail. The middle course is best. Eliminate the bad and retain the good features in private enterprise and the inevitable sequence of events in our rapidly moving world will bring an adjustment fair to all. : é first aneasamne / Now, Now! my GOOD LAD---REMEMGER 1m tp WEL as Sa es * HERE IS A SHINY © NEW NICKEL ---NOW WHAT COULD pote Gear, ? : WELL:: ~ER< A-_A SHINY NEW WELL HERE WE ARE™\ JUST SET THEM DOWN; ‘ ANDO I WiLL PAY i You ila FORESTRY SERVICE GETS CARLOAD OF POWDER The Forest Service Monday recejyed a carload of powder for use in its various road building projects. Much of this powder will be used in e¢onstructing the road which follows Ponderosa Way. About one carload, or ten tons, of powder is used ‘month. ly. Supervisor R. L. P. Bigelow of the Tahoe National Forest Area ig in Sacramento and will be away from his office in this city for most of March. He is available in Sacramento

for consultation in regard to epoordination measures planned by the State and Federal authorities for the prevention of forest fires. IMPROVED BUSINESS ~— CONDITION OBSERVED ‘wedding gown? She had slipped it on ‘surreptitiously, before leaving home, BOOK CHATS i ell feeling that it would be more approi priate than either of the cheap, dark ‘cotton frocks which the selfish Aunt ‘Sade had bought for her. Having It requires infinite courage to lay: q pee © Beto ~ ‘whacked off a goodly portion of the before the _ indiffirent, sympathetic; ,.. Z 5 ‘Skirt to shorten it, she again attachor sneering public the stor : 's . (pica ae sd deans © peary ns one Sed it to the waist. But alas! her life. But this is done daringly and. stitches were. aivthing buthonestly. in Doctor Helen MacKnight ' 7 ges hate Sa et iCame her time to recite. Up went Doyle’s autobi aphy, i ¢ cen SREY) O ss PPE? hee hand in a practiced gesture. And ‘rip went the dress, 1 i rThat Nellie, as the doctor was ’ © ao ee i ous display of F christened, was sired by a certain’ play o pop ebaboae! Smith MacKnight, was no reason fos . It was after this humiliating event hiding from the world the fact of his /t#@t Nellie journeyed with Aunt neglect for his family,, his selfish--M@TY and her family from New York ness tyranny, and his visits to the, tate to Dakota. Here, the chitd lagisos aud poker table: :found a new life on the broad, windy. The breaking up.of Nellie’s first Prairie. home in Pennsylvania, her father’s} ‘My heart was filled to bursting departure, with his surveying fn. With happiness,’? writes the doctor. {struments, for Bodie, California, her . My self-respect and capacity for af;temporarily happy life with Granq. fection had been stunted like some ;mother MacKnight, her mother’s’ Plant that had been shut away from . tragic death, her years as Cinderetla the sunlight and as the warming rays lin her unele’s household; and how . °f kindness shone in the place what (By Abigail J. Stackpole) of ‘the child found herself the glass slip. had been sad and dark so long, I ‘hours per week for the Nevada Coun-/Per of release and happiness via a felt transformed. ,four-mile trek to Aunt Mary’s farm . Those brave pioneers of tfte prairie (and beautifully, leaving the reader, breaking virgin soil, planting and with moist.eyes and an ache in the . harvesting their crops, and the vegeIthroat. ‘tation of a new spring, the drought, ! 3ut along with the heart throbs;the prairie fire, and then a cyclone— jthere are many laughs. ‘what impressions these events made ; What could be more humorous or: Upon the child! ;pathetic than the incident of little . At thirteen Nellie joined her fath(Nellie’s appearance at the school ener in Inyo County. And because o tertainment, dressed in her mother’s his selfishness and tyranny, the gir! ‘ ' Condit g = my as revealed in a government survey be. Buy, build or modernize witha Bank of America LOAN Thoughtful thousands are now repairing or modernizing their homes, business structures, and farm buildings—or buying and building new residential property through loans uniter the Natwnal Housing Ad—on one of the most convenient and practical plans of repayment ever offered. Bank of America is cooperating wholeheartedly with the government's great building program through its 424 branches in 256 California communities, Obtain l was anything but happy. i} % : . Harshly as MacKnight treated his . . daughter, he deserves credit for -rec-! . ognizing the splendid material he had to deal with. The creat Mojave country would never have had its “Angel of Mercy”’ had not old MacKnight commanded that Nellie become either ‘‘a lawyer or a doctor.’ Before she was old enough ‘to practice medicine, the young lady had become a full-fledged ‘‘physician and surgeon” as her shingle testified a year later. After an interneship at a San Francisco hospital,’ Doctor Helen MacKnight, as she was now known, began her desert practice which lasted for many years. Through a visit 'to the sick bed of a sheepherder’s wife, Doctor MacKnight met and married young Doctor Doyle of the Rush School ot Medicine, in Chicago. With him she continued her practice, even after she had borne two children. The style of this book is easy, delightful, and often lyrical. Srlendid are the descriptions of life on a New ‘England farm, work in a corset facthought when. the twenty per cent. ——all these events’ are told vividly . tending their horses and cattle, and ‘TY, the prairie—both in the cold i. . Mr. F. H. Horswill, of San Fran. ie¢isco, Safety Engineer of the State ‘Compensation Insurance Fund wag in Nevada City Wednesday in the in.° 'terests of the state compensation de;partment. Mr. Horswill stated that in his travels throughout the state ha lsees a great increase of business. ‘Through his. observations he believes there was between 25 and 30 per jcent increase in. all classes of business in 1934 over 1938. FORESTERS ORDER IS INVOLVED IN SUIT The Grand Court of California, . Foresters of America, has brought \suit-against Court Cristoforo ColumIbo of Nevada City and Cotrt Pride jof Grass Valley. The action, begun \in San Francisco, has been transfer. red to the Superior Court of this county for trial. The suit follows the movement of two years ago when the local courts withdrew and refused to recognize the jurisdiction of the state grand court. Involved, according to the complaint, is about $3,000, which the grand court alleges is in~ the {hands of the local courts and which the grand court claims. Officers of both Grass Valley. and Nevada City Foresters Courts are named as defendants. of winter and in the heat of summer, the desert, mining activities, and San Francisco before the earthquake and fire. We shall look for more human-interest stories from the pen of this talented -writer. A Child Goes Forth, House, N.Y. Price $3. Gothan . NEW? !anovations Service Comfort itt i pene eT it a RUNNING ICE WATER IN ALL ROOMS FAMOUSLY SOFT BEDS With Bath . . ahaa ol: GARAGE SERVICE AT HARVEY M. Toy, MANAGING-OWNER 350 Attractive Cheerful Rooms THE MOST convenient THE BEST accommodations THE FINEST meale DOOR complete information at any branch. _ BANK of AMERICA NAL TRUST & SAVINGS ASSOCIATION Ludwig Netz P.O. BOX 284 FACTORY S%. —, NEVADA CITY Our granite, dignified in its lustrous black eolor with an almost white background to show up lettering and carving, is fitting. tribute to the memory of your departed loved ones. We make all _tynes of designs from the simple nlarker to thé more elaborate monuments. Prices are remarkably reasonable and all work is done to your satisfaction, Order now for Memorial Day, ; / Associ Nevad: agains title t the M