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NEVADA CITY NUGGET 7 FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1940.
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: A Legal Newspaper, as defined by s-atute. Printed and Published
5 at Nevada City.
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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. nder Act of Congress, March 3,
1879.
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A Slight “Touch” Of Taxes .
A little learned research by Dr. Arthur P. McKinlay, professor of languages at the University of California, ‘discloses
the fact that the word “‘tax’’—with.which we are all so familiar—is derived from the Latin slang term that means “‘touch.”’
During the last 500 years of the Roman Empire's existence, Dr. McKinlay declares, the average Roman citizen was
“touched” pretty regularly and pretty heavily. In fact, it got
to resemble more of a push than a touch.
Americans can easily sympathize with the attitude of
poor Junius Q. Publicus back in the old days. ~ Government
“touching” is going on at a great rate in this country at the
present time, and the Tax Policy League has just come up with
-some more disheartening figures.
_ Last year, the League points out, taxes collected by all
units of government in the United States raked up 20.1 per
cent of all the national income produced, which was about 5
per cent more than in 1930. Excluding payroll ‘taxes, here
were some of the largest levies going to make up the grand total: 35.6 per cent of the total on property, 20.6 per cent on incomes, and 8.3 per cent on gasoline. In one way or another,
we were all “touched.”
Maybe the figures are boring, but paying your increasing
shore of the bill is even more so. :
And we suggest a new motto for governments afflicted
with loose fiscal habits—a motto to read something like this:
“Friends, Romans, taxpayers—hand us your dough.”
—Contributed.
All Kinds Of Jobs
Industrial research has come in for a lot of highly merited praise in recent years. In the teeth of the severest depression this country has ever known, it was heartening to know
that faith in the future was not lost, and that industry was
continuing its search for new products and a higher standard
of living. :
Today, in better times, research continues at an acceler~ ating rate with industry spending well over $200,000,000 annually to find new products or better methods of making existing ones. We read almost daily of new triumphs in this line
——and emphasis is usually placed on the new and interesting
and useful things that industry is learning to make.
There’s another angle however, that’s even more important. That’s the fact that a lot of new jobs are created by
research. And a wide variety—Americans have the widest
and most varied choice of occupation offered anywhere in the
world.
That latter point is dramatized in a report just issued by}
the Department of Labor and called “Dictionary of Occupa\ tional Titles.’’ This document lists 29,744 titles for 17,452
\ different jobs in this country and i,t’s impressive evidence of
_ the fact that in this country Americans are laboring at a treendous variety of tasks, making an inconceivable number
of ‘products, and in general contributing to the highest and
SES of living in the whole, wide world. — Contributed '
ry
\ Thomas FE. Dewey Says
Thomas E, Dewey declared in a recent speech in Louisville, Ky., that “the next administration must set this country
on its true course after seven years of New Deal misguidance.”’
“It must,” he said,-“‘give the American economic machine
_the signal to ‘go ahead.’ ;
“It must devise an equitable tax program which will not
sap the life-blood of our nterprise.“It must remove the barriers that now prevent the flow
of capital into new production. S
. distinction, the perogative of genius and _artistocracy;
the beast’s creed of hate, intolerance and general inhumanity
to man and the hue.and cry of war hysteria gives great aid and
comfort to that slimy serpent, the fifth column.”
BADLY WARPED
POLITICAL PARADE
; BY CLEM WHITAKER
By CLEM WHITAKER
The total cost of California’s Ham
and Eggs ‘‘panic’’ of 1939, which
played havoc with the state’s credit
(until the returns came in) and put
a terrific crimp in business and in
scheduled to go on the ballot again
in November—for the third time in
three years—business experts have
made some general calculations and
have been startled into action by the
figures.
The 1939 election, for example,
cost the taxpayers a cool million dollars, just to set up the machinery
for a special election: Campaign expenditures pro and con, ran into the
neighborhood of $2,000,000. And
business losses, resulting from the
scare, are estimated at more than
$30,000,000!Stemming from that cost sheet is
a hew initiative act ‘to amend the
initiative, for which petitions are in
circulation throughout the state.
Jurr WonbeR IN
I wonder if these jittery things called “nerves,”
Which pester us from day to shining day,
Are just unleashed emotions run amock
And then by us allowed to have their way;
If tempermental fits are now taboo,
And fainting ladies are quite out of style,
If nerves have been debunked, it seems to me,
To boast of them is scarcely worth the while.
sentimental tales
poems, titled The Garland, and published in the year 1849.
The heroines faint upon every page and sometimes indulge in
for the family doctor.
My father, to whom the book had been presented in his
romantic and susceptible youth, found its contents boresome;
to those of my own generation who seldom heard of a “‘fainting spell,’’ the stories and poems were both funny and amusing.
The tempermental fit was once regarded asa mark of
but
after it had been convincingly defined as “‘pure cussedness, ’
it lost caste and gradually fell’into disuse. os
Now it seems, that certain eminent scientists have debunked our “‘shattered nerves,’ therefore it behooves us to
conduct ourselves as reasonable human beings; keeping a
tight rein upon our wayward emotions and remembering always that, “he who ruleth his spirit is greater than he who
taketh a city.”’
Nerves it seems, according to those who know, have
nothing to do with our nervous systems; they are, in their
unwelcome demonstrations the result of lost self control, the
unleashing of erratic emotions which are sometimes cured by
change of scene, line of thought, or by the individual's determination to ke captain of his soul.
I wonder if one would not feel pleasantly self sufficient
and well poised, if he could greet an attack of so-called nerves
with these words: “nerves” pooh, pooh, nerves have nothing
to do with the case. I’m suffering from upset emotions and .
shall attend to them in short order.
I'm not going to indulge in a fit of tantrums or hysteria,
I'm not going to call the doctor, the psycho-analyst or the
metaphysician, I’m not going to take drugs, or expensive occult treatments; I’m going to exercise my self control my
sense of humor and a goodly portion of common sense. I can
master my own spirit, just watch me.
thunder storm clatters about above my head; I wonder which
will win out, I or the thunder storm.
Uncle Silas says: ‘‘The blitzkrieg is always preceeded by
—A. MERRIAM CONNER. :
“The next administration, must regulate business in thel,
public interest and not in the interest. of a concealed alien distortion of our American system. \
Politically Speaking
“It must restore the nation to financial soundness. .
“Tt must replace San enemaan competence.
“Tt must deserve the confidence of the people by calling
to their service experienced and able meh instead of the present collection of brilliant nonenties. We must bring again to
} the government masters of achievement in \place of masters
EY of invective.” \ ip
Such a program, said Mr. Dewey, candidate for the Re-. ;
publican presidential
a government whose word is good
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and whose honor is nntar-. the common, ordinary, every-day integrity that is expected
among decent men,” and added that ‘“‘for the first time in our
history we have an administration which has a vested interest
in depression.”’ \
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The man in the street seldom pays
much attention to the battles in the
legislature over the rather dry subject of taxes and finances but when
nomination, “‘can only be carried out by. terent.
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nished. He declared that the New Deal “‘has failed to\observe total tax collections in the state were
$103,696,036 in the fiscal year ‘of
1929-30, and jumped to $311,650,709 in 1938-39?
\. tal is figured out on’ a per
107 mim street Nevada County Photo Center [. . soz
i taxes\ is something to reckon with,
since the per capita cost is the. highest in the nation.
By JOHN W. DUNLAP
United Press Staff Correspondent
SACRAMENTO, May 23.—(UP)—
Governor Olson and his legislative
adversaries. He sought $63,000,000
in new taxes to balance the budget
at the 1939 session and came back
with a $50,000,000 demand when the
special session began in February.
he matter is brought to the attenNeither was approved,
ion of his pocketbook, that is difThe assembly fevenue and tax
committee, while dominated by antiOlson members, did quite a thorough
job of digging under the surface of
taxes. The costs of adding school expenses to the’ state, the mounting
total of unemployment relief, and
the new system of unemployment insurance and old age securit] was noted. After observing that a large portion of the increased cost of state
government has been due to causes
generally beyond legislative control,
the committee commented: i
“It is the belief of this committee that the saturation point has been
For example, who seems to care if
But when this rather sizeable tocapita
ost, it will be seen that every perpaid $18.25 in 1929-80 and
44,93 last year. That trebling in
This complex problem of taxes is
a
I wonder if you are of that generation which used to poke
fun at the fainting ladies of your mother’s earlier youth; we
: have in our library, an old book of and
tantrums at which the family stands aghast, or sends speedily
I'm going to try this sort of philosophy the next time alé
itrous to the well being of the people
The remedial proposal, admittedly aimed at such political perennials
as Ham and Eggs and the Single
Tax provides as follows:
“Whenever a proposed initiative
law or _ initiative constitutional
amendment is submitted to the electors and rejected at a state wide election, neither it nor any initiative
measure substantially the same, or
embodying any substantial part
. thereof, shall be submitted: to the
electors for the three years next following such election, unless during
said .time such resubmission is requested by petition by qualified voters equaling 30 per cent of all votes
cast for all canddiates for governor
at the last general election’’.
Sponsoring the initiative amendment is an association of business
men and taxpayers, known as the
Initiative Defense League, with headquarters in Santa Barbara.
Numerous plans for amending the
initiative law to preventracketeering at the state’s expense have been
discussed by civic groups and taxpayers’ organizations since the 1939
election, but most of the other programs have been abandoned as unworkable. There has also been a demand, in some quarters, for outright
repeal of the inlitiative, but that has
been shelved as too drastic.
Whether, the proposal for a threeyear recess between elections on the
once-defeated’ measures will qualify
for this year’s ballot is still undetermined. But if it qualifies, a battle
royal will ensue, as minority pressure
groups, such as the Ham and Eggs
organization, the Single Taxers, the
Workers’ Alliance and left wing. organizations will join forces to fight
it.On the other hand, chambers of
commerce, women’s clubs, farm organizations, taxpayers’ associations,
et cetera, will undoubtedly join hands
in support of it.
Sooner or later, there’s a show. down coming on the use and abuse
of the initiative. And there’s a goodly possbility that it will be in November! :
HNGLISHMAN FATHER AT 80
GORLESTON, Eng. (U.P.)—Capt.
David St. Clair Donaldson, father of
a 6-week-old baby in his 80th year,
is believed to be the oldest father
with the youngest family in Great
Britain. : eo
KLOWER IN RARE BLOOM
SAN FRANCISCO -('U.P. ) Golden
Gate Park authorities recently announced that the rare red Waratah
plant, Australian national flower,
LEGAL NOTICES
CIRTIFICATE OF CONCERN
TRANSACTING BUSINESS UNDER
FICTITIOUS NAM@®
I, the undersigned. do hereby certrade, has never been accurately tify that I am the sole proprietor of
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that centain, dairy business being
P : conducted under.the name and style
But with the pension scheme/ (> pRmT HARTE DAIRY, with place
of business on Jordan Street, Nevada
City, California; y
WITNESS my hand this 2nd day
of May, 1940. —
U; S. N. JOHNSON,
Jordan St., Nevada City, California.
State of California,
County of Nevada, ss. :
On this 2nd day of May, 1940, before me, Harry M. McKee, a Notary
Public in and for said count+, personally appeared U. S. N. Johnson,
known to me to be the person whose
name is subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged that he
executed the same,
WITNESS my hand and official
seal,
(Seal) HARRY M. McKER,
Notary Public.
May 8, 10, 17, 24.
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additional taxes would prove disasas a whole, and devastating to the
economic security of the state of
California.’’
Another keypoint was:
“This committee. is of the firm
opinion that unemployment cannot
be. permanently reduced until industry is encouraged to provide more
jobs. As industry expands and provides more jobs, under the stimulus
of more moderate taxation, the need
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lief, as well as unemployment ingsurance, will be lessened and the state
budget automatically will be brought
into balance.’’ :
The chief recommendation to affect economies is the appointment
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There is no end of the argument
because politics enter in too.The
state department of finance disputes .
the committee findings but the arguments adds to the grist of interestPhone 521
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LICENSED BROKER
P.O, Box 501
Nevada City
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