May 23, 1938 (4 pages)

FWwo NEVADA. CITY NUGGET MONDAY, MAY 23, 1938. PAGE eS ns oe eee il Nevada City Nugget OG 305 Broad Street. Phone A Legal Newspaper, as defined by statute. P-inted and Published at Nevada City. VBL og i NODS aa asain coat er erlaeene ae Se Editor and Publisher H.M. 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 (In Advance) P, Rate sesh tn Basta Masta taste Me thet ate aM ae nie) It Could Happen Here . Any community, in common with every other city and town in California, is vitally concerned with what has happened and what may happen to Grass Valley and Nevada City. Possible effect of the recent attempt to discredit the citizens of the twin mining centers in the eyes of the state and nation, challenges rural communities even more strongly than the larger cities. But the entire state is rightly concerned over this effort to hold up Grass Valley and Nevada City to public scorn as an un-American communities where: law and order have broken down and where the primitive spirit of vigilantism runs riot. hoaee The truth is, of course, that the general public has heard largely one side of the story—the exaggerated testimony of radical fire-brands that the people of the two towns needlessly resorted to violence against peaceful and law-abiding CIO pickets. Regardless of sympathies one way or another concerning the merits of the controversy between the CIO and the local miners’ union in Nevada county, it would be manifestly unfair to indict the citizens of these communities solely upon the biased testimony of one party to the quarrel. And in light of widely publicized reports, based on the statements of the pickets and their sympathizers. a letter addressed to the governor by Nevada county's sheriff, Carl J. Tobiassen, is illuminating. He writes: “At no time was there a real strike in the Murchie mine, or a genuine labor dispute between the mining company and its enplo-recs. The CIO pickets’ real grievance is not that law and order broke down—hbut that law and order did not break down when they did thi: utmost to break it down. Neither during this disturbance nor at any other time has there been reason for any law-abiding persons to fear to live or work in Nevada County.” The good name of a community is a priceless possession. What has happened in Grass Valley and Nevada City conceivably could happen—anywhere. But California communities generally won't be easily intimidated. Radical agitators and “beef squads” will do well to remember that !—Contributed. «. around on the banks of the river, In H. M. The first prospector to come into this part of the cowniry had heard Indian tales of a ‘shining. metal, abundant along the Yuba river, near Washington. After a good deal of persuasion, he hired an ‘Indian to guide ihim to this promised land. When the white man, an Irishman, and ‘his guide arrived at the Yuba, they found slugs of free gold lying a day. or two they filled up two sacks wit about fifty pounds of gold each, all they felt they could carry, and started east. The Irishman, his fortune made, returned to Dublin, planning to come back to the Yuba in two or three years. When he did come back, three years later, he was amazed to find this desolate country occupied by hordes of greedy miners, who had long since seized every speck of surface gold and were panning and working the river bottoms with long toms. “Ounce” Diggings Gone Forever % L. Jr. eleteieiieleiei she stesfeafonenteoesfeateesteoteestesfecteateestestoesteeateateoteate tested seteateoeteateotetestesteten lars, but ‘‘ounce diggings” haven’t been in evidence for fifty years. Old Peter Voies, who killed a dentist near Bakersfield, was an extraordinarily clever prospector. He uncovered a rich deposit on bed rock under three or four feet of mud at on the Yuba about four years ago. It yielded him four hundred dollars in two days. Oceasional finds like that keep the hope of golden goose eggs forever in the minds of the prospector’s eye. But there is not one of them whoj, would feel blessed by the Almighty if he could average two-fifty per day. THIS AND THAT i. ] —— == 4 By ROY GRIFFITH DEETER . This week’s ‘chuckle: This is an «The early prospectors on the rien banks of the Yuba considered twenty . dollars a day a poor wage, as well they might, for it took all of that to} purchase bare necessities. This district was a merchant’s as well as aj miner’s paradise in the very early days. Eggs often sold for a dollar apieze, flour was fifty to a hundred : dollars per fifty pound sack. Many . successfull miners met these stupendois prices with ease, for the rich river bottoms and banks frequently oldie, but it is also a goodie. It seems that Joshua Bryan Lee of Oklahoma was pressed by a fellow congressman for a definition of the “only. difference’ between Oklahoma’s State University and Oklahoma’s State insane asylum, both of which are situated in his home town. Quipped Mr. Lee: “You have ito show mental improvement to get out of the asylum.” Note in retrospect: During the eourse of our soujourn on this reyielded five or six dollars per pan and diggings where a man could find an ounce of gold in every pan of mud and gravel were not by any means uncommon. volving mass of matter, it has been our good fortune and privilege to !make many trips hither anl thither, covering a great number of this ola world’s nigh spots. We’ve been whare lucky man by his fellows if, by hard work and persistance, he can average the ‘rivers deserve a great deal of credit for their valiant efforts to keep off the relief rolls. Panning is no pienic. The main principle in the hunt for rivers gold is, of course, that the gold is so much heavier than anything else that it is always at’ the very bottom of the dry creek bed, or wherever. it is being sought. Down.thé prospector sinks his hole, The CIO In Retreat —F— o The results of the Pennsylvania election can legitimately he read as the handwriting on the wall for the CIO. The candidates endorsed by John L. Lewis were very resoundingly slapped—and John L. Lewis had staked his all, by his own words, on the Pennsylvania primary. The primary was not necessarily to determine the status of Lewis in Pennsylvania. That was setteled a year ago when he lost his sit-down tilt with Republic Steel. He put up the biggest fight of his career against Republic—and the rank and file of Pennsylvania turned thumbs down on him. Lewis was smart enough at that time to realize what had happened. He called off his sit-downs all over the country. He ‘went subtle, probably under prompting from the top, and turned to the polls. But he knows now, if he did not know before, that it takes more than subtlety to fool the majority of the people very much of the time. CIO was born with the seeds of its dissolution within itself. It was foundationed in the creed of violence and contempt of law and order. Such creed is inimical to all the basic creeds of America. The mere fact that only about 4,000,000 of labor's multitudinous ranks entered the fold proved the movement to be of no méssianic inspiration. True, it topped AFL in membership, but it did that under the stimulus of novelty and inflated promises. Will the CIO, when it attains (if it does) the present age of the AFL, have as many members as AFL? It will not! . The attitude of Nevada county toward the CIO is becoffting, increasingly the attitude of America. That attitude is NOT anti-labor. Labor itself is repudiating the CIO. Had labor, as a whole, supported CIO candidates in Pennsylvania, Lewis would have carried the elections. The CIO is getting just exactly what it’s got coming— repudiation and eventual oblivion. Remember-the [WW.— Sacramento Union. When Is Law Not Order? The report-of Governor Merriam’s five-man fact-finding committee on the Nevada county Murchie mine troubles says that law and’order broke down in Nevada county during the April clashes between the CIO and the Independent Mine Workers’ Protective league. The report of Nevada county. Sheriff C. J. Tobiassen says that law and order did not break down. It is all a matter of opinion, one concludes after reading both reports. Looking at the situation from the detached view; icé 107 Mal Street T}studio that satisfies. Good PHONE 67 — photos at reasonable prices — no guess work. 8-hour Kodak ° finishing service. must be barred out of the way. Then three dollars a day. The snipers along . Nowadays the hard working sniper its hot, and where its cold. We’ve) with a sluice box or pan along Deer, Creek or the Yuba is considered al ones—we’ve been in high altitudes land in low—in fact we'd say offbeen in dry countries and in wet . hand, we have had 4 very good . “eross sevtion look see.’’ and yet . (and here we arrived at the point of fall this rambling), in all our travels oo can honestly say there is no other spot we have ever seen, that.ithat . we would rather live in than this. . There is something about Nevada . City. Perhaps it is that every now and ‘then, it reminds one of some dis. tant place and thus conjures happy: memories; again one is sure that it iis the most unique -and individual throug gravel and big rocks that town in the world, but whatever it! fers to this peculiar delusion as a , ‘may be, Nevada City has a way of . when his hole is down to bedrock hei reaching toward your heart and then scrapes up the mud from the bottom ! wrapping herself about it. I wonder and puts in in the pan. Holding the; pan under water, he whirls the mud and gravel around so that the lightest material is carried away, and he throws out all the big pebbles. Tiien follows a long process of shaking and washing and pouring away a little gravel at a time. Finally there is nothing in the bottom of the pan but a little black sand, iron. In this black sand there may or may not be a few specks of gold, which the prospector puts in a little jar to be kept until he has enough to amalgamate and sell to the gold buyer for twenty eight or nine dollars an ounce. If anyone has a righteous claim to the refrain ‘“‘born eighty years too Jate” it is certainly the prospectors who every summer and fall line the panned out banks of Deer Creek and the Yuba river. They have all heard tales of the “ounce” diggings of the early days, and each of them has in his heart the hope that some ‘day he -will strike a pocket that will yield an-ounce of gold per pan. And with this hope before them, shining like a nest of golden goose eggs, they patiently dig and pan and dig and pan and patiently look for a few specks of gold in the fine black sand at the bottom of every pan. Occasionally one of them daes strike a pocket of a few hundred dolif anyone could really become blind or indifferent to ‘this sgicturesque spot, so full color and history and like Rome and Edinburgh, built on seven hills? With snow on the grov~ ~ and the surrounding hills looming high and white, it might be any Swiss village. In the spring, when the poplars are pale, pale green, does anyone. remember early spring in Normandy? In the fall, when the hills sides look like crazy quilts so riotous are the colors, it reminds us a lot of the Lake Louise country in Canada. But it is always Nevada City, and always a beauty spot, and we are very humbly grateful that Fate dished us out so sweet a spot wherein to roost. Well tempus is fidgeting and so are we, so we will say to you, eheerio, everybody. Mrs. J. P. Muscardin and Mrs. Ww. P. Lee left today for San Francisco. They are delegates from the Nevada City high and grammar schools P. TA. respectively and as delegates will attend the convention from the Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Muscardini had as guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Lou Kutzkou of San Francisco; Mr. and Mrs. August Dellwig, San Jose, and Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Ronchi, of Folsom. did break dwn, in that superior the sheriff's report, it was the in the mines. Sheriff Tobiassen minces satisfied with their lot and with welfare and peace. ble by attacking the regular allowed to break it down.” as maintained point of the governor's committee When does law and order not? That is a fine question. The CIO pickets started the trouminers and thus precipitating a melee, starting something they could not finish. Sheriff Tobiassen answers the governor's committee with the defi that law and order did not break down Law is foundationed in majority rule, ject that of keeping the peace. Peace reigns in by the majority of Nevada county’s citizens. The CIO has a hard case to prove.—Sacramento of outsiders, law and order numbers were allowed to overpower a minority; looking at it from the point of view of the majority of the people of: Nevada county, as represented in duty of the majority to prevent a small group of agitators from dictating working conditions no words in laying the entire blame for the troubles on CIO organizers and their converts. He argues that the vast majority of miners in the county were their own union, and that they had every right to look upon the:CIO leaders as foes to their break dee: and when does it ‘because the CIO was not with its primary ob-, Nevada county, THE REBUILT BLUE EAGLE oore a Jusr WONDER IN I wonder why these cults and those In no wise can agree; Each leader thinks his own way best And shouts the same to me; But mid the maelstrom of beliefs, Creeds, cults and parties, too, How can . ever hope to find One that I know is true? I wonder if we can possibly keep thoroughly well informed concerning the new and strange isms, contraisms, political bogies, etc., which are constantly springing up here, there and practically everywhere else. My answer, given off hand is, “‘no.”” Before we have time to anaylze one of these fanstastic products of our so-called civilization and begin dimly to understand its implications, another one bobs up clamoring for recognition and abject follower. This world is too full of a number of things; that is why we are so bewildered. Now here comes the German Bund; we would like to understand what it is all about, but in order to do so, one must engage in historical and biological research; the idea goes back to things Nordic and drops down to Hitler’s naive belief pure and unspotted from the world. Dorothy Thompson re“pure nonsense,’ and any student of anthropology would be able to prove its fallacy in five minutes time. The German Bunk—I meant Bund, goes goose stepping by, mailed fists uplifted and hoarse shouting. “Heil Hitler’! It can add no iota to the joy or intelvoices future students of our diversified times, of that there is no doubt. I wonder about America’s latest contribution to the comics: La Folly of La Follet. Are we going to have a real live third party? Probably not. Third parties do not thrive in America, they are usually insufficiently nourished. Finally they droop and die and the place which knew them once, knows them no more forever. We should not hasten to become neophytes, supes and dupes, for when a party leader begins to speak of himself and his ambition as, ‘‘divinely appointed,”’ the spirit of intolerance is sure to be lurking in his wake, and from those deadly foes of all humanty, ignorance, superstition and intolerance, may our own good common sense deliver us. Uncle Silas says: “San Francisco used to be known the world over as—The City by the Golden Gate.”” Now we are beginning to speak of it as “‘the city of bridges.” __ APRILSALES OF . : GAS INCREASE SACRAMENTO, May 23.— A substantial increase in gasoline sales during April was reported today ‘by the State Board of Equalization. The gasoline tax revenue for last month amounted to $4,632,373.50, an increase of $464,024.94, or 10.02 per cent over the same month of 1937. The tax was assessed against the distribution of 154,412,450 gallons of gasoline. The April sales were the highest reported by the board since August, 1937. : NG Subscribe for The Wugget. 7, FOOTE’'S FLORIST SHOP WREATHS AND BOUQUETS FOR FOR MEMORIAL DAY Floral Tributes to Our Departed Heroes Phones— Grass Valley 420. Nevada City 283-J Hills Flat Grass Valley hehe Beste she ste BR RR RI I I I ee Union. i le i ae a he oe ie TET Tee eee TTT eee TT TTT TT TTT TT ee that because of its Nordic background the Germanic race is ligence of nations, but it will afford much amusement to” o% =. wh . wi

FWwo NEVADA. CITY NUGGET MONDAY, MAY 23, 1938. PAGE eS ns oe eee il Nevada City Nugget OG 305 Broad Street. Phone A Legal Newspaper, as defined by statute. P-inted and Published at Nevada City. VBL og i NODS aa asain coat er erlaeene ae Se Editor and Publisher H.M. 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 (In Advance) P, Rate sesh tn Basta Masta taste Me thet ate aM ae nie) It Could Happen Here . Any community, in common with every other city and town in California, is vitally concerned with what has happened and what may happen to Grass Valley and Nevada City. Possible effect of the recent attempt to discredit the citizens of the twin mining centers in the eyes of the state and nation, challenges rural communities even more strongly than the larger cities. But the entire state is rightly concerned over this effort to hold up Grass Valley and Nevada City to public scorn as an un-American communities where: law and order have broken down and where the primitive spirit of vigilantism runs riot. hoaee The truth is, of course, that the general public has heard largely one side of the story—the exaggerated testimony of radical fire-brands that the people of the two towns needlessly resorted to violence against peaceful and law-abiding CIO pickets. Regardless of sympathies one way or another concerning the merits of the controversy between the CIO and the local miners’ union in Nevada county, it would be manifestly unfair to indict the citizens of these communities solely upon the biased testimony of one party to the quarrel. And in light of widely publicized reports, based on the statements of the pickets and their sympathizers. a letter addressed to the governor by Nevada county's sheriff, Carl J. Tobiassen, is illuminating. He writes: “At no time was there a real strike in the Murchie mine, or a genuine labor dispute between the mining company and its enplo-recs. The CIO pickets’ real grievance is not that law and order broke down—hbut that law and order did not break down when they did thi: utmost to break it down. Neither during this disturbance nor at any other time has there been reason for any law-abiding persons to fear to live or work in Nevada County.” The good name of a community is a priceless possession. What has happened in Grass Valley and Nevada City conceivably could happen—anywhere. But California communities generally won't be easily intimidated. Radical agitators and “beef squads” will do well to remember that !—Contributed. «. around on the banks of the river, In H. M. The first prospector to come into this part of the cowniry had heard Indian tales of a ‘shining. metal, abundant along the Yuba river, near Washington. After a good deal of persuasion, he hired an ‘Indian to guide ihim to this promised land. When the white man, an Irishman, and ‘his guide arrived at the Yuba, they found slugs of free gold lying a day. or two they filled up two sacks wit about fifty pounds of gold each, all they felt they could carry, and started east. The Irishman, his fortune made, returned to Dublin, planning to come back to the Yuba in two or three years. When he did come back, three years later, he was amazed to find this desolate country occupied by hordes of greedy miners, who had long since seized every speck of surface gold and were panning and working the river bottoms with long toms. “Ounce” Diggings Gone Forever % L. Jr. eleteieiieleiei she stesfeafonenteoesfeateesteoteestesfecteateestestoesteeateateoteate tested seteateoeteateotetestesteten lars, but ‘‘ounce diggings” haven’t been in evidence for fifty years. Old Peter Voies, who killed a dentist near Bakersfield, was an extraordinarily clever prospector. He uncovered a rich deposit on bed rock under three or four feet of mud at on the Yuba about four years ago. It yielded him four hundred dollars in two days. Oceasional finds like that keep the hope of golden goose eggs forever in the minds of the prospector’s eye. But there is not one of them whoj, would feel blessed by the Almighty if he could average two-fifty per day. THIS AND THAT i. ] —— == 4 By ROY GRIFFITH DEETER . This week’s ‘chuckle: This is an «The early prospectors on the rien banks of the Yuba considered twenty . dollars a day a poor wage, as well they might, for it took all of that to} purchase bare necessities. This district was a merchant’s as well as aj miner’s paradise in the very early days. Eggs often sold for a dollar apieze, flour was fifty to a hundred : dollars per fifty pound sack. Many . successfull miners met these stupendois prices with ease, for the rich river bottoms and banks frequently oldie, but it is also a goodie. It seems that Joshua Bryan Lee of Oklahoma was pressed by a fellow congressman for a definition of the “only. difference’ between Oklahoma’s State University and Oklahoma’s State insane asylum, both of which are situated in his home town. Quipped Mr. Lee: “You have ito show mental improvement to get out of the asylum.” Note in retrospect: During the eourse of our soujourn on this reyielded five or six dollars per pan and diggings where a man could find an ounce of gold in every pan of mud and gravel were not by any means uncommon. volving mass of matter, it has been our good fortune and privilege to !make many trips hither anl thither, covering a great number of this ola world’s nigh spots. We’ve been whare lucky man by his fellows if, by hard work and persistance, he can average the ‘rivers deserve a great deal of credit for their valiant efforts to keep off the relief rolls. Panning is no pienic. The main principle in the hunt for rivers gold is, of course, that the gold is so much heavier than anything else that it is always at’ the very bottom of the dry creek bed, or wherever. it is being sought. Down.thé prospector sinks his hole, The CIO In Retreat —F— o The results of the Pennsylvania election can legitimately he read as the handwriting on the wall for the CIO. The candidates endorsed by John L. Lewis were very resoundingly slapped—and John L. Lewis had staked his all, by his own words, on the Pennsylvania primary. The primary was not necessarily to determine the status of Lewis in Pennsylvania. That was setteled a year ago when he lost his sit-down tilt with Republic Steel. He put up the biggest fight of his career against Republic—and the rank and file of Pennsylvania turned thumbs down on him. Lewis was smart enough at that time to realize what had happened. He called off his sit-downs all over the country. He ‘went subtle, probably under prompting from the top, and turned to the polls. But he knows now, if he did not know before, that it takes more than subtlety to fool the majority of the people very much of the time. CIO was born with the seeds of its dissolution within itself. It was foundationed in the creed of violence and contempt of law and order. Such creed is inimical to all the basic creeds of America. The mere fact that only about 4,000,000 of labor's multitudinous ranks entered the fold proved the movement to be of no méssianic inspiration. True, it topped AFL in membership, but it did that under the stimulus of novelty and inflated promises. Will the CIO, when it attains (if it does) the present age of the AFL, have as many members as AFL? It will not! . The attitude of Nevada county toward the CIO is becoffting, increasingly the attitude of America. That attitude is NOT anti-labor. Labor itself is repudiating the CIO. Had labor, as a whole, supported CIO candidates in Pennsylvania, Lewis would have carried the elections. The CIO is getting just exactly what it’s got coming— repudiation and eventual oblivion. Remember-the [WW.— Sacramento Union. When Is Law Not Order? The report-of Governor Merriam’s five-man fact-finding committee on the Nevada county Murchie mine troubles says that law and’order broke down in Nevada county during the April clashes between the CIO and the Independent Mine Workers’ Protective league. The report of Nevada county. Sheriff C. J. Tobiassen says that law and order did not break down. It is all a matter of opinion, one concludes after reading both reports. Looking at the situation from the detached view; icé 107 Mal Street T}studio that satisfies. Good PHONE 67 — photos at reasonable prices — no guess work. 8-hour Kodak ° finishing service. must be barred out of the way. Then three dollars a day. The snipers along . Nowadays the hard working sniper its hot, and where its cold. We’ve) with a sluice box or pan along Deer, Creek or the Yuba is considered al ones—we’ve been in high altitudes land in low—in fact we'd say offbeen in dry countries and in wet . hand, we have had 4 very good

. “eross sevtion look see.’’ and yet . (and here we arrived at the point of fall this rambling), in all our travels oo can honestly say there is no other spot we have ever seen, that.ithat . we would rather live in than this. . There is something about Nevada . City. Perhaps it is that every now and ‘then, it reminds one of some dis. tant place and thus conjures happy: memories; again one is sure that it iis the most unique -and individual throug gravel and big rocks that town in the world, but whatever it! fers to this peculiar delusion as a , ‘may be, Nevada City has a way of . when his hole is down to bedrock hei reaching toward your heart and then scrapes up the mud from the bottom ! wrapping herself about it. I wonder and puts in in the pan. Holding the; pan under water, he whirls the mud and gravel around so that the lightest material is carried away, and he throws out all the big pebbles. Tiien follows a long process of shaking and washing and pouring away a little gravel at a time. Finally there is nothing in the bottom of the pan but a little black sand, iron. In this black sand there may or may not be a few specks of gold, which the prospector puts in a little jar to be kept until he has enough to amalgamate and sell to the gold buyer for twenty eight or nine dollars an ounce. If anyone has a righteous claim to the refrain ‘“‘born eighty years too Jate” it is certainly the prospectors who every summer and fall line the panned out banks of Deer Creek and the Yuba river. They have all heard tales of the “ounce” diggings of the early days, and each of them has in his heart the hope that some ‘day he -will strike a pocket that will yield an-ounce of gold per pan. And with this hope before them, shining like a nest of golden goose eggs, they patiently dig and pan and dig and pan and patiently look for a few specks of gold in the fine black sand at the bottom of every pan. Occasionally one of them daes strike a pocket of a few hundred dolif anyone could really become blind or indifferent to ‘this sgicturesque spot, so full color and history and like Rome and Edinburgh, built on seven hills? With snow on the grov~ ~ and the surrounding hills looming high and white, it might be any Swiss village. In the spring, when the poplars are pale, pale green, does anyone. remember early spring in Normandy? In the fall, when the hills sides look like crazy quilts so riotous are the colors, it reminds us a lot of the Lake Louise country in Canada. But it is always Nevada City, and always a beauty spot, and we are very humbly grateful that Fate dished us out so sweet a spot wherein to roost. Well tempus is fidgeting and so are we, so we will say to you, eheerio, everybody. Mrs. J. P. Muscardin and Mrs. Ww. P. Lee left today for San Francisco. They are delegates from the Nevada City high and grammar schools P. TA. respectively and as delegates will attend the convention from the Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Muscardini had as guests Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Lou Kutzkou of San Francisco; Mr. and Mrs. August Dellwig, San Jose, and Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Ronchi, of Folsom. did break dwn, in that superior the sheriff's report, it was the in the mines. Sheriff Tobiassen minces satisfied with their lot and with welfare and peace. ble by attacking the regular allowed to break it down.” as maintained point of the governor's committee When does law and order not? That is a fine question. The CIO pickets started the trouminers and thus precipitating a melee, starting something they could not finish. Sheriff Tobiassen answers the governor's committee with the defi that law and order did not break down Law is foundationed in majority rule, ject that of keeping the peace. Peace reigns in by the majority of Nevada county’s citizens. The CIO has a hard case to prove.—Sacramento of outsiders, law and order numbers were allowed to overpower a minority; looking at it from the point of view of the majority of the people of: Nevada county, as represented in duty of the majority to prevent a small group of agitators from dictating working conditions no words in laying the entire blame for the troubles on CIO organizers and their converts. He argues that the vast majority of miners in the county were their own union, and that they had every right to look upon the:CIO leaders as foes to their break dee: and when does it ‘because the CIO was not with its primary ob-, Nevada county, THE REBUILT BLUE EAGLE oore a Jusr WONDER IN I wonder why these cults and those In no wise can agree; Each leader thinks his own way best And shouts the same to me; But mid the maelstrom of beliefs, Creeds, cults and parties, too, How can . ever hope to find One that I know is true? I wonder if we can possibly keep thoroughly well informed concerning the new and strange isms, contraisms, political bogies, etc., which are constantly springing up here, there and practically everywhere else. My answer, given off hand is, “‘no.”” Before we have time to anaylze one of these fanstastic products of our so-called civilization and begin dimly to understand its implications, another one bobs up clamoring for recognition and abject follower. This world is too full of a number of things; that is why we are so bewildered. Now here comes the German Bund; we would like to understand what it is all about, but in order to do so, one must engage in historical and biological research; the idea goes back to things Nordic and drops down to Hitler’s naive belief pure and unspotted from the world. Dorothy Thompson re“pure nonsense,’ and any student of anthropology would be able to prove its fallacy in five minutes time. The German Bunk—I meant Bund, goes goose stepping by, mailed fists uplifted and hoarse shouting. “Heil Hitler’! It can add no iota to the joy or intelvoices future students of our diversified times, of that there is no doubt. I wonder about America’s latest contribution to the comics: La Folly of La Follet. Are we going to have a real live third party? Probably not. Third parties do not thrive in America, they are usually insufficiently nourished. Finally they droop and die and the place which knew them once, knows them no more forever. We should not hasten to become neophytes, supes and dupes, for when a party leader begins to speak of himself and his ambition as, ‘‘divinely appointed,”’ the spirit of intolerance is sure to be lurking in his wake, and from those deadly foes of all humanty, ignorance, superstition and intolerance, may our own good common sense deliver us. Uncle Silas says: “San Francisco used to be known the world over as—The City by the Golden Gate.”” Now we are beginning to speak of it as “‘the city of bridges.” __ APRILSALES OF . : GAS INCREASE SACRAMENTO, May 23.— A substantial increase in gasoline sales during April was reported today ‘by the State Board of Equalization. The gasoline tax revenue for last month amounted to $4,632,373.50, an increase of $464,024.94, or 10.02 per cent over the same month of 1937. The tax was assessed against the distribution of 154,412,450 gallons of gasoline. The April sales were the highest reported by the board since August, 1937. : NG Subscribe for The Wugget. 7, FOOTE’'S FLORIST SHOP WREATHS AND BOUQUETS FOR FOR MEMORIAL DAY Floral Tributes to Our Departed Heroes Phones— Grass Valley 420. Nevada City 283-J Hills Flat Grass Valley hehe Beste she ste BR RR RI I I I ee Union. i le i ae a he oe ie TET Tee eee TTT eee TT TTT TT TTT TT ee that because of its Nordic background the Germanic race is ligence of nations, but it will afford much amusement to” o% =. wh . wi