May 13, 1940 (4 pages)

PAGE TWO ‘ NEVADA CITY NUGGET ~ MONDAY, MAY. 13. 1940. Nevada City Nugget 305. Broad Street. Phone 36. : A Legal Newspaper, as defined by statute. Printed and Published at Nevada City. Editor and Publisher 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, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year (Im Advance) ..-..-.-.----.-<2.<-$2.50 sfestestesteatestotenfeateietetesfeteteafeteaieaiesiesetafetefetieiefeteiofeteieteerieieiefeteietetet detects {, : eis 4 Civilization Aflame . Save for the early.days of September, 1914, when, their backs to the wall before Paris, 1,000,000 Frenchmen defeated 1,500,000 Germans in the four day first Battle of the Marne, the civilized world has never known a week such as this one. The Battle of the Marne proved the decisive battle of the first World War. And now millions of men have clashed in a decisive combat that may reach a turning point even as this sentence is read—or may go on until millions are dead and a civilization aflame is reduced to the ashes of a new Dark Age. If the battle goes against the Democracies, all that human _ enlightenment has striven for in Europe+-freedom, respect for law, sanctity of covenants, decent standards of living for the masses—will be washed away in the blood bath that is soaking the soil of the stricken low countries. Strike-Bound Jobs. The total yearly income of nearly a quarter-million Am-. ericans was destroyed directly through strikes in 1939, according to disquieting records released last week by the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 2613 strikes, 1,170,962 workers were idle approximately . 7.812.000 man-days—the equivalent of a year’s idleness for 59,373 workers, each of whom, by conservative estimate, had three dependents. The support of hundreds of thousands of women and children gone with the bread-winner's strike-bound jobs! Yet the figures present but a fraction of the total real loss. Where plants were forced to shut down or restrict output. vast numbers of workers, not directly connected with the strikes in question, were involuntarily thrown ‘out of work When a business could not meet demands and survive, it failed——and all jobs were gone. Where a business could not balance profits with strike-won labor costs. it often was obliged to get along with fewer employes, and thus the general unemployment situation was intensified rather than relieved. California's share in creating those national statistics is an indictment of those workers who have permitted themselves to be led by radical violence-advocating leaders. Excepting only made to een’ Che BEL thas becomtee populous New York and Pennsylvania, California had more strikes than any state in the Union last year. Los Angeles stood . third among all cities, San Francisco fourth — both ahead of . Chicago and Detroit, and behind only New York and Pennsyl_ Vania! _ That record will please all belligerent czars. little and big, . using the power of American labor to perpetuate themselves. It will please few real Americans, in the ran&s of labor or out. And it should shame California into opening her eyes and studying the real purposes of its most-belligerent labor leaders. Both the weakness and the'strength of democracy were high-lighted against the background of desperate war last week at one of the most dramatic sessions ever held in Britain's historic House of Commons. The weakness was in sharp contrast to the machinesmooth heel-clicking efficiency of Nazidom at war. The English were at loggerheads among themselves, newspapers were condemning Chamberlain and his cabinet as incompetent bungers who should be thrown out of office to save the nation from defeat, and conversely praising them as men who should be retained to save the nation. In the Commons, there were ‘stormy attacks and counter-attacks. Such a nation cannot be as sharply decisive. as quick in action, as sure in method, as can.a nation like Germany ,where everything moves and evervbody acts. talks. reads and thinks as one dictator wills. The strength was in Britain's letting off steam—of Englishmen counselling together, freely condemning, freely praising, together arguing and together deciding—from the plain facts before them—what to do next and how to do it. The English now know what they're up against — a powerful, ruthless opponent. The German people “know” only that they are “invincible.’’ The Fuehrer has said so! : Which shall win the long run? History has answers: Democratic Britain has been a dominant world power since Drake sank the Spanish Armada in 1588—has seen autocracies go down through the centur“ies: Spain, Russia, the abortive French dictatorship of Napoleon. Free speech, a free press, the will and liberty to face hard facts honestly, may be armor too impregnable even for Hitler’s vaunted bombers. 107 Mii streee Nevada County Photo Center PHONE 67 Portraits, Commercial Photography, 8 Hour Kodak Finishing, Old Copies, 4 . 3 Droveer apHer Enlarging and Framing, 4 , Kodaks and Photo Supplies, : Grass Valley Movie Cameras and Films ee ee ae YOU CAN'T EAT IT people, who seem completely to lack any imagination, any concept of the cruelties their leaders inflict upon ‘the neighboring nations, since reparations taught them nothing, would gain some understanding of war’s brutalities, if they could see those noble lindens bearing the horrible fruit of war. THINKING OUT LOUD (Continued From Page One) not resort to anything like decimation of Germany’s male population. They dare not have recourse to the brutal law of Moses. But it does seem to us, if with the end of this war the British and French could ‘have the guts to hang from every tree along that wide avenue of Berlin, Unter der. Linden, all those responsible for the ordered crime and outrages done both within and. without Germany, it might go a long way toward discouraging another German _ outbreak within a century. We do not know how many lindens there are along that avenue, nor how great a burden their limbs can bear, but we do believe that the German TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: C. Leonard Arnett is not employed by us, and we will not be It is high time that aggressive wars were made an international crime. “No Hunting or Trespassing”’ signs for sale at the Nugget Office. YOU CAN’T GO WRONG! Now you can dye. ANY fabric without failure, with the new PUTNAM “De-Luxe All Fabric Tint Dye. Guaranteed to color every type of material including Celanese and. Acetates. jus Received Beautiful Cups and Saucresponsible in an po hig ers to match the Service wey for gey of Se Plates on our special cou transactions. P pec If interested in termite pon ofrer. control please phone 1936 Washington Snapshots . By JAMES PRESTON Facts which don’t make the head lines these days disclose an interesting situation, for they show that Washington is outdoing the man on the flying trapeze—with the greatest of ease it goes two ways at once. Folks here still talk about the country being la “democracy” in which the majority rules. But at the same time, many of them do all they can to keep representatives of the people from carrying out the will of a majority of the citizens. Typical is the story behind the Walter-Logan bill, which would grant relief to thousands of citizens from the rule of bureaucrats. The people want that bill. The House passed it by a three to one vote, A majority of the delegations from 35. states were for it, while only three state delegations opposed it. Yet every possible effort is being , law. Another good sample is the Wagner Act. All public opinion polls have-shown for a year, and continue to show, that a great majority of the ople want that law amended. Yet here again, the powers that be seek to thwart, the will of the majority because a minority*—the (;ClO—1likes . the law ‘‘as is.”’ . There is a growing public belief . Which was summarized by a Nation\ . . j i } ‘al. Press Clubber who remarked: “The Wagner Act gives the same . protection to racketeeers that the . prohibition amendment did to “the . bootleggers.”’ But still those in control want to preserve this protection. There is little doubt, too, but that . a majority of the people would like to see government expenses cut before their taxes go skyhigh. Yet folks who control Congressional machinery are doing little about -reducing expenditures. The debt, which some day must be paid, goes higher daily. This remarkable calculation was made only: recently by one House member who is worrying about the future. “‘We would have to take &5 per cent of the net income away from all people»who want income tax\returns to pay the running expense.of government this year.” Here is still another sample of thwarting the will of the majority. Nearly everybody agrees that despite a laudable objective of putting a bottom under wages, the Wagner Hour . ' law does lots of unfair things such . ’ as requiring in some cases that men who make as much as $10,000 a year time, : Businessmen were ‘summoned to Washington to tell about such cases. They hoped to get relief in\unfair instances. Yet when they testified in public hearings, they were cross-examined by labor union lawyers at length—and without any advance notice that they would be cross-exami: ined, or that they could be cross-examine other witnesses. From Davis— Elton Tobiassen, who completed his first term at Davis Agricultural College returned to his home in Nevada City Friday. He will resume his studies there the latter part of Augbe paid time and a half for over-. ' Marysville, or address ® a ies 628 12th Street, MarysCarlisle, in the Des Moines Register. nD dante (Signed) ab oe The 1940 world’s fair of the west BELL’S TERMITE THE will feature a brand new Folies BerCONTROL. Rexall Phone gere produced by Cliff Fischer, the By E, J. Bell. DRUG STORE 100 Parisian showman. . HAVE YOU AN American Flag > to hang from your porch or store on DECORATION DAY —MAY 30— e@e FLAG DAY —JUNE 14— INDEPENDENCE DAY —JULY 4— If you have NOT and desire—as a good American citizen—to hang out OLD GLORY over your door on Patriotic Holidays © Nevada City Nugget Will Supply You With a Flag AS A PREMIUM ON SUBSCRIPTIONS PAID INTO THIS OFFIC —BEFORE JULY 3RD— These flag outfits represent a conservative retail value of $1.50— They consist of the FLAG, 3 feet wide, 5 feet long, made of durable cotton bunting, with sewed stripes, and printed stars, a, sturdy brass jointed pole six feet long, varnished with a hardwood varnished knob to cap it, a . cotton rope and a strong aluminum holder for screwing onto porch or window sill, the whole packed neatly in a metal cornered shipping board box. THIS OFFER IS OPEN UNTILJuly 3, 1940 To and old subscriber or new isbueriber who brings into the Nugget Office \. and Fridays.) : \ THE FLAG OUTFIT IS FREE TO SUBSCRIBERS, NEW OR OLD. 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PAGE TWO ‘ NEVADA CITY NUGGET ~ MONDAY, MAY. 13. 1940. Nevada City Nugget 305. Broad Street. Phone 36. : A Legal Newspaper, as defined by statute. Printed and Published at Nevada City. Editor and Publisher 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, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year (Im Advance) ....-...-..-.----.-<2.<-$2.50 sfestestesteatestotenfeateietetesfeteteafeteaieaiesiesetafetefetieiefeteiofeteieteerieieiefeteietetet detects {, : eis 4 Civilization Aflame . Save for the early.days of September, 1914, when, their backs to the wall before Paris, 1,000,000 Frenchmen defeated 1,500,000 Germans in the four day first Battle of the Marne, the civilized world has never known a week such as this one. The Battle of the Marne proved the decisive battle of the first World War. And now millions of men have clashed in a decisive combat that may reach a turning point even as this sentence is read—or may go on until millions are dead and a civilization aflame is reduced to the ashes of a new Dark Age. If the battle goes against the Democracies, all that human _ enlightenment has striven for in Europe+-freedom, respect for law, sanctity of covenants, decent standards of living for the masses—will be washed away in the blood bath that is soaking the soil of the stricken low countries. Strike-Bound Jobs. The total yearly income of nearly a quarter-million Am-. ericans was destroyed directly through strikes in 1939, according to disquieting records released last week by the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 2613 strikes, 1,170,962 workers were idle approximately . 7.812.000 man-days—the equivalent of a year’s idleness for 59,373 workers, each of whom, by conservative estimate, had three dependents. The support of hundreds of thousands of women and children gone with the bread-winner's strike-bound jobs! Yet the figures present but a fraction of the total real loss. Where plants were forced to shut down or restrict output. vast numbers of workers, not directly connected with the strikes in question, were involuntarily thrown ‘out of work When a business could not meet demands and survive, it failed——and all jobs were gone. Where a business could not balance profits with strike-won labor costs. it often was obliged to get along with fewer employes, and thus the general unemployment situation was intensified rather than relieved. California's share in creating those national statistics is an indictment of those workers who have permitted themselves to be led by radical violence-advocating leaders. Excepting only made to een’ Che BEL thas becomtee populous New York and Pennsylvania, California had more strikes than any state in the Union last year. Los Angeles stood . third among all cities, San Francisco fourth — both ahead of . Chicago and Detroit, and behind only New York and Pennsyl_ Vania! _ That record will please all belligerent czars. little and big, . using the power of American labor to perpetuate themselves. It will please few real Americans, in the ran&s of labor or out. And it should shame California into opening her eyes and studying the real purposes of its most-belligerent labor leaders. Both the weakness and the'strength of democracy were high-lighted against the background of desperate war last week at one of the most dramatic sessions ever held in Britain's historic House of Commons. The weakness was in sharp contrast to the machinesmooth heel-clicking efficiency of Nazidom at war. The English were at loggerheads among themselves, newspapers were condemning Chamberlain and his cabinet as incompetent bungers who should be thrown out of office to save the nation from defeat, and conversely praising them as men who should be retained to save the nation. In the Commons, there were ‘stormy attacks and counter-attacks. Such a nation cannot be as sharply decisive. as quick in action, as sure in method, as can.a nation like Germany ,where everything moves and evervbody acts. talks. reads and thinks as one dictator wills. The strength was in Britain's letting off steam—of Englishmen counselling together, freely condemning, freely praising, together arguing and together deciding—from the plain facts before them—what to do next and how to do it. The English now know what they're up against — a powerful, ruthless opponent. The German people “know” only that they are “invincible.’’ The Fuehrer has said so! : Which shall win the long run? History has answers: Democratic Britain has been a dominant world power since Drake sank the Spanish Armada in 1588—has seen autocracies go down through the centur“ies: Spain, Russia, the abortive French dictatorship of Napoleon. Free speech, a free press, the will and liberty to face hard facts honestly, may be armor too impregnable even for Hitler’s vaunted bombers. 107 Mii streee Nevada County Photo Center PHONE 67 Portraits, Commercial Photography, 8 Hour Kodak Finishing, Old Copies, 4 . 3 Droveer apHer Enlarging and Framing, 4 , Kodaks and Photo Supplies, : Grass Valley Movie Cameras and Films ee ee ae YOU CAN'T EAT IT people, who seem completely to lack any imagination, any concept of the cruelties their leaders inflict upon ‘the neighboring nations, since reparations taught them nothing, would gain some understanding of war’s brutalities, if they could see those noble lindens bearing the horrible fruit of war. THINKING OUT LOUD (Continued From Page One) not resort to anything like decimation of Germany’s male population. They dare not have recourse to the brutal law of Moses. But it does seem to us, if with the end of this war the British and French could ‘have the guts to hang from every tree along that wide avenue of Berlin, Unter der. Linden, all those responsible for the ordered crime and outrages done both within and. without Germany, it might go a long way toward discouraging another German _ outbreak within a century. We do not know how many lindens there are along that avenue, nor how great a burden their limbs can bear, but we do believe that the German TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: C. Leonard Arnett is not employed by us, and we will not be It is high time that aggressive wars were made an international crime. “No Hunting or Trespassing”’ signs for sale at the Nugget Office. YOU CAN’T GO WRONG! Now you can dye. ANY fabric without failure, with the new PUTNAM “De-Luxe All Fabric Tint Dye. Guaranteed to color every type of material including Celanese and. Acetates. jus Received

Beautiful Cups and Saucresponsible in an po hig ers to match the Service wey for gey of Se Plates on our special cou transactions. P pec If interested in termite pon ofrer. control please phone 1936 Washington Snapshots . By JAMES PRESTON Facts which don’t make the head lines these days disclose an interesting situation, for they show that Washington is outdoing the man on the flying trapeze—with the greatest of ease it goes two ways at once. Folks here still talk about the country being la “democracy” in which the majority rules. But at the same time, many of them do all they can to keep representatives of the people from carrying out the will of a majority of the citizens. Typical is the story behind the Walter-Logan bill, which would grant relief to thousands of citizens from the rule of bureaucrats. The people want that bill. The House passed it by a three to one vote, A majority of the delegations from 35. states were for it, while only three state delegations opposed it. Yet every possible effort is being , law. Another good sample is the Wagner Act. All public opinion polls have-shown for a year, and continue to show, that a great majority of the ople want that law amended. Yet here again, the powers that be seek to thwart, the will of the majority because a minority*—the (;ClO—1likes . the law ‘‘as is.”’ . There is a growing public belief . Which was summarized by a Nation\ . . j i } ‘al. Press Clubber who remarked: “The Wagner Act gives the same . protection to racketeeers that the . prohibition amendment did to “the . bootleggers.”’ But still those in control want to preserve this protection. There is little doubt, too, but that . a majority of the people would like to see government expenses cut before their taxes go skyhigh. Yet folks who control Congressional machinery are doing little about -reducing expenditures. The debt, which some day must be paid, goes higher daily. This remarkable calculation was made only: recently by one House member who is worrying about the future. “‘We would have to take &5 per cent of the net income away from all people»who want income tax\returns to pay the running expense.of government this year.” Here is still another sample of thwarting the will of the majority. Nearly everybody agrees that despite a laudable objective of putting a bottom under wages, the Wagner Hour . ' law does lots of unfair things such . ’ as requiring in some cases that men who make as much as $10,000 a year time, : Businessmen were ‘summoned to Washington to tell about such cases. They hoped to get relief in\unfair instances. Yet when they testified in public hearings, they were cross-examined by labor union lawyers at length—and without any advance notice that they would be cross-exami: ined, or that they could be cross-examine other witnesses. From Davis— Elton Tobiassen, who completed his first term at Davis Agricultural College returned to his home in Nevada City Friday. He will resume his studies there the latter part of Augbe paid time and a half for over-. ' Marysville, or address ® a ies 628 12th Street, MarysCarlisle, in the Des Moines Register. nD dante (Signed) ab oe The 1940 world’s fair of the west BELL’S TERMITE THE will feature a brand new Folies BerCONTROL. Rexall Phone gere produced by Cliff Fischer, the By E, J. Bell. DRUG STORE 100 Parisian showman. . HAVE YOU AN American Flag > to hang from your porch or store on DECORATION DAY —MAY 30— e@e FLAG DAY —JUNE 14— INDEPENDENCE DAY —JULY 4— If you have NOT and desire—as a good American citizen—to hang out OLD GLORY over your door on Patriotic Holidays © Nevada City Nugget Will Supply You With a Flag AS A PREMIUM ON SUBSCRIPTIONS PAID INTO THIS OFFIC —BEFORE JULY 3RD— These flag outfits represent a conservative retail value of $1.50— They consist of the FLAG, 3 feet wide, 5 feet long, made of durable cotton bunting, with sewed stripes, and printed stars, a, sturdy brass jointed pole six feet long, varnished with a hardwood varnished knob to cap it, a . cotton rope and a strong aluminum holder for screwing onto porch or window sill, the whole packed neatly in a metal cornered shipping board box. THIS OFFER IS OPEN UNTILJuly 3, 1940 To and old subscriber or new isbueriber who brings into the Nugget Office \. and Fridays.) : \ THE FLAG OUTFIT IS FREE TO SUBSCRIBERS, NEW OR OLD. WHO PAV ᐀䄀夀䔀䄀删ᤀ匀 SUBSCRIPTION ($2.50) IN ADVANCE ust. . $2.50 in advance for a years subscription to the Nugget, (issued Mondays . @) 4 Sees