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May 24, 1940 (8 pages)

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* NEVADA CITY NUGGET 7 FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1940. = alee ogee: oie ele eiealeelealeoteetetestestess Nevada City Nugget * 305 Broad Street. Phone 36. ee : A Legal Newspaper, as defined by s-atute. Printed and Published 5 at Nevada City. H. M. LEETE ~ aii 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. nder Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. % SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year (In Advance) .........22.2.22.-.--.$2.50 pce meni be teats tea% Peetetenete tenet Sestteseskaestesesesteteatestesatey fufeeatestespaferfecatete tut tea tected desesteestestesen, 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 %. 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.”’ \ BY $ PHONE 67 Portraits, Commercial Photography, _» : 8 Hour Kodak Finishing, Old Copies, Drorcenspnee. Enlarging and Framing, Kodaks and Photo Supplies, Movie Cameras and Films 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. e 99 7 Mg es BE ERNE e. 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 Sees 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. ~~ % TRUE FRIEND IS ONE WHO CAN LOVE YOU STILU -AFIER BORROWINGMONEY FROM You. WANTED—A Carload of ‘Used Tires. = o* : Eh O TIRE WELD CO. . NEXT TIME ILL BUY TIRES FROM THE O* HILLS FLAT PHONE 994 LOST——Rimless Eye Glasses between the Heidelberg Inn-and Grass Valley. Reward. Paul Weisbrod, Hills Flat, Phone Grass Valley 967. 5-241te USED REFRIGERATOR S—We have several models at very low prices. This is your chance to getready. for summer heat and to save the price of food wasted by spoilage. Also a DeLuxe Gibson refrigeratgr, last in the house, at greatly rewhich has been carefully nursed in the arboretum for years, was in bloom. The last time it bloomed ‘was five years ago. 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 for additional taxes to :finance reduced price, Foote Electrical Co. 132 Mill St., Grass Valley. 5-202te CHERRIES FOR SALE-—At Vistica Orchard and ‘Nursery. Cherries are Scarce Come and get them now. 3 miles North of Yuba City on U. S. 99-E. 5-131mop APARTMENT TO LEASE — Five rooms and bath. Broad street. Modern in all respects. With garage. Phone 95. 3-5tf EXPERT RADIO REPAIRING — Loud Speaker Systems for Rent or Sale. Authorized Philco Auto Radio Service. ART’S RADIO HOSPITAL —Specialists in Radio Ills, 112 South Church Street, Grass Valley. Phone 984. 2-19tf 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 of a budget control officer by the legislature to assist in studying budWATCHES CLEANED, $1.00. Mainsprings, $1.00. Watch Chrystals, round, 25¢, fancy, 50c. All work guaranteed. J. M. Bertsche, Watch and Clock repairing. With Ray’s Fixit Shop, New location, 109 West Main Street, Grass Valley. 12-1tf get requets. ee 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 REAL ESTATE WALTER H. DANIELS LICENSED BROKER P.O, Box 501 Nevada City ing episodes in current Sacramento major boné. of contention between reached and that the imposition of history, NUGGET ADS PAY C. ¢