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MONDAY, MAY 20, 1940.
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Nevada City Nugget
305 Broad Street. Phone 36.
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Here Is Wendell Willkie ~ .
Seven years ago the New Deal’s T. V. A. invaded one of
the properties of the Commonwealth & Southern Corporation, a utility which was able under sound management to establish récords for low rates—lower than most public rates.
even when those rates result in a loss—and the highest per
customer use of electricity of any major utility. The new type
of rate structure which made all this possible was developed
by Commonwealth & Southern’s engineefs working with
Wendell Willkie. the corporation's president.
With the T. V. A. invasion, Wendell Willkie went to
_ battle with the New Deal. He had no particular quarrel with
the government's interest in the power business, because even
before the New Deal came along, Wendell Willkie had insisted that utilities, being a public service, should be subject to
government reculation: and long before the government
turned its attention to the organization of utilities companies,
Willkie had reorganized Commonwealth's board of directors,
abolished the office of chairman which he described as useless,
simplified its capital structure and converted a loss to a profit.
Personally. Mr. Willkie did not believe and does not believe in government ownership; but believes it is the people
who should decide. Accordingly, he decided to put the case of
T. V. A. vs. Commonwealth & Southern up to the people.
The basis of his fight with T. V. A. was that ti was attempting
to run his comnany out of business without paying a fair and
just price. In this fight Willkie had much opposition. He was
opposed of course by the New Deal. He was opposed by business men who felt that openly attacking the New Deal was
“dangerous business.” He was opposed by Wall Street. But
none of this made the slightest difference. Mr. Willkie is independent and unorthodox; he makes up his. mind what is
right, and then fights for that right against any and all opposition. So far. the right as he has seen it has turned out in most
case to be the right for the greatest number of people, and
even those who oppose. him in the heat of battle are often the
first to hail his victories.
F It was the T. V. A. fight that brought Wendell Willkie
to the attention fo the general public. Here was a man who
was openly fighting the New Deal at a time when its popularity was at its height. Here was a man stamped with the mark
‘utilities magnate,’’ which was generally thought to make him
automatically the enemy of all liberal people. and particularly
of all forgotten men. Yet, because he was fighting a just fight.
and fighting it honestly, none of this opposition and hatred
materialized. He took a cause-which the New Deal had mad=
the most unpopular in the world, and gained for it the sympathy and interest of many of the New Deal’s most arden supporters among the general public. Even the forgotten men
themselves became so interested that they forgot or neglected or did not wish to hurl such epithets as forgotten men are
popularly supposed to hurl at big business.
oc va time there was much talk about Wendell
llki ap ential presidential candidate in 1940: but Mr.
Willkie paid little attention. He was a business man interested
Primarily in pursuing his business, and in setting forth certain
Principles through which he could conduct his business more
efficiently and with what he sincerely believed would. prove
greater benefit to the American people. But he could not dis-.
courage the presidential talk. His unusual executive and administrative ability had attracted national attention, and
thousands of business men over the country were cavinie that
the nation needs a man like Wendell Willkie as its chief executive to bring business recovery.
But Willkie-says even today, that “I am not a candidate
for any public office. . gave that up 25 years ago.”
Yet he admits that a man would be fahoman if he could
refuse the highest honor which lies within the power of the
American people to bestow upon the private citizen. And he
admits that he would welcome an opportunity to campaion
with his principles against the principles of the New ae
and he adds that he would like his opponent to be Frankl;
D. Roosevelt, chief advocate of New Deal policiesGwin, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Baxter,
Mr. and Mrs, G. EB. Mitchell, Mr. and
WOULD FORCE
COMMUNISTS
By RALPH H. TAYLOR
Various patriotic groups, together
with a number of leaders in public
affairs, have urged, during recent
months, that the Communist party
should be banned by jaw from a
place on the California ballot.
That demand, undoubtedly, has
sprung from public indignation over
disruptive activities of the Communists, particuarly in. fomenting labor
disturbances and class warfare—and
from revelations that the Communist
movement is financed, in large part,
with funds furnished by Soviet Russia.
This writer, however, begs to differ with those who would deny the
Communists the right to have a legally constituted political party.
Great as the provocation may
be—and it is great—neither California, nor any other state in the
United States, can afford to disregard the-fact-that this nation guarantees freedom of political thought
and political action. That is the very
essence of Americanism, and much
Social Events
Dinner and Dance
At Cisco Grove
Mr. and Mrs. Leland S. Smith, Mr.
and Mrs. J. D. Rafferty of Nevada
City and Mr. and Mrs John Hodgson
of Big Bend ranger station entertained at a dinner and dance Satur' day evening at Cisco Grove in the
inn operated by Jim Gould. Fifty
enjoyed the delicious dinner and
dancing in the cosy dining room the
moonlight evening being a perfect
“time for the party.
Invited guests were Mr. and Mrs.
Guerdon Ellis Mr. and Mrs. C. M.
Mrs. B. C., Goldsmith, Mr. and Mrs.
M. Haley, Mr. and Mrs. Elwood
Stone Mr. and Mrs. W. Tollman, of
Nevada City and Mr: and Mrs. F.
Meggers, ‘Camptonville, Mr. and Mrs.
O'Neill, North Bloomfield.
Attorney and Mrs Frank Finnegan
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Worth, Mr. and
Mrs D.ave Richards, Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Smith, Dr, and Mrs. John R.
Bell, Mrs. Will Nichols, Misses Margaret Rector, I. Ruiter, Miss Severson, Wilson, Ed Franz, John LaRue,
Clifford Horn, Cecil Klee and Franklin Tuttle, Nevada City. Miss Avis
Caldwell and Charles Fairbank, of
Sacramento.
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; as we may despise Communism, any
. American citizens has a right to ad. voeate it, or even to seek to’ estabae it here, so long as he seeks to
/achieve his objective under the dem. ocratic processes guaranteed by the
. United States Constitution.
The Communists, if they are American citizens, have just as much
right to the ballot as Republicans or
Democrats—and ,just as much right
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it-may rankle in the hearts of real
Americans, ;
There is another respect, however,
. in which California’s election laws
certainly should be amended—an
amendment which would force the
Communists out into the open, instead of permitting them to hide
their identity and yet vote the Communist ticket on election day.
At the present time, according to
the Secretary of State’s office, there
are only 820 voters registered, the
Communist party in California, despite the fact that the party polled
150,760 votes for one of its candidates for state office at the last general election. In other words, the
Communists, for devious reasons best
known to themselves, shun admission of their Communist affiliation—
even though they vote the ticket
when they go to the polls.
Alameda county, for example, reports a Communist party registration
this year of only 77 voters; San
Francisco, 183, and Los Angeles
county, 400. In 20 counties in California, there is not a single voter
registered as'a Communist; but on
election day every county will find
Communists turning out to vote for
their candidates.
That condition if made -possible
by a loophole in the present election
laws, which permits any party to remain qualified as a regularly constituted party in California, regardless of how small its registration, if
one of its candidates polled 3 per
cent or more of the total vote cast
at the previous election.
If the law were amended to require that the registration of any
qualified party must equal at least
3 per cent of the vote cast at the previous general election, California
Communists would be forced to
abandon their undercover strategy
and admit their Communist affiliations, or allow their party to go into the descard. And that is as it
should be. Republicans and Demoerats register in the party of their
to a party designation, no matter how .
Packer in the New York Daily Mirror.
choice and are proud to do so; if the
Communists are ashamed to register
as Communists, there must be something wrong with the party.
As a matter of fact, it is the ‘‘boring from within’ policy of the Communists—their whole strategy of
masquerading and working covertly
and anonymously—which has made
the movement suspect everywhere,
even before recent disclosures turned
the spotlight on Communist responsibility for labor strife, SRA corruption and chiseling, and attempts to
discredit American institutions. Instead of driving the Communists underground by denying them a place
on the ballot, California needs to
drive them into the open—so that
all may know who they are and what
they are up to. California has no need
to fear any political party, if it is
open and above board. But Califorhia has every reason to be on guard
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