November 19, 1937 (6 pages)

Or. i» ‘oll ® Y (> ’ * TIS Thinking Out Loud H. M. L. The layman’s point of view, the “little fella’s slant’’ is something altogether alien to brain trusters, the highly trained economists, and the theorists. It does not involve calculus, or charts, and graphs, or, to any great extent percentages. The little chap’s point of view is extremely practical as regards all governmental reforms, measures, and tax acts. For ‘the little fellow hasn’t a wide, deep cushion between himself and hard times. At least 95 per cent of. United States business men operate on a very small margin of capital. They are usually within -hailing distance of that condition, known in the old days as “root hog or die.”’ The “ring around the rosy’’ game that Washington officialdom plays, and in a lesser degree, that the California state government plays, viewed near at hand and judged by its results, the little fellows of the country are beginning to damn wholeheartedly. By artificial means, that is to say subsidies in one form or another, some millions of farmers have been temporarily benefited. The prices for farm produce, wheat, cotton, meat, wool, things that people must have to Ssts-' tain life, have been jacked up. Factory workers throughout the country have formed unions, with governs mental approval and help, and they have jacked up their wages. The factory hand had to get higher prices for manufacturing things becaus» the things he ate’ and wore were costing more. Now the farmer finds he must pay high prices for his supplies, machinery, trucks and caterpillars, and he yelps for still higher prices for farm produce. The result is a game of ‘‘ring around the rosy.”’ In between, are all the little business men in the country, all the clerks, postoffice employes, stenographers, all the vast army of unorganized workers. While factory and farm workers together number around 17 million persons the rest of the population is ground between those two mill stones. The little fellow looking at these enormous forces which the Federal government has specially favored, giving them legal machinery with which to oppress the rest of the population, begins ~suspect that it belongs to the legion of forgotten men, The President in his message to Congress the other day spoke kindly but vaguely of doing something nice to free the little business men of the country of the tax burden, As a matter of fact little businessmen do approve of much the New Deal has done. The old age security act and the employment act, it is generally freely acknowledged are steps in the right direction. But the plague of the tax gatherers is a fearful loae for the little fellow to carry. Not the money especially, though that is an important item, but increased bookkeeping, the red tape, the endless carbon copies, the monthly, semiannual or annual reports, these are things that harry the little fellow. In California for instance the Federal government collects an income tax, a gas tax, and a social security tax. The latter is paid once a month. The state government collects the employment insurance tax, the sales tax, gas tax, and automobile tax. The county government collects real and personal property taxes, the city government ditto, plus various license fees for doing business. Most business men pay twelve different taxes a year to five or six different tax. collectors. It would greatly sipplify and reduce the cost of government if, in each county, there was one tax collecting agency to gather in all the taxes due county, state and federal governments. At one fell swoop an army of tax gatherers could be dismissed and the load carried by the little fellow by that much re-. duced. The tax gatherers would perforce find other means to earn their _ living, thus producing instead of tax collector’s office the only one in all the land. This of course is only the dream of a visionary. But it would be extremely easy for the -state and federal governments acting together to eliminate 75 per cent of the cost of gathering taxes by enacting legisla. tion which would make the county tax collector’s the only one in all Nevada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ton The Liberty of the Press consists ‘in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives and for justifiable ends. .From the Californian, March 15, 1848: — Alexander HamilVol. 11, No. 91. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1937. There were a large number ot visiting Rotarians yesterday at the meeting of the local club in the National Hotel. Monroe Jang, an American Chinese of Marysville, was the guest speaker and gave a_ remarkably clear address on the Japanase-Chinese war. Members of the Rotary club enrolled in the Red Cross for the year. Dr. Walter Hawkins taking their membership. dues. treasurer of Yuba county, a friend of Yang brought him up from Marysville,. and the large attendance of Rotarians from other clubs and visitors from Grass Valley and elsewhere can be attributed to the wide interest in the war in the Orient upon which Jang spoke. As a high school graduate of Marysville, Jang won a cash prize offered by the Bank of America for the best essay in California. There will be no meeting of the Rotary club next deek due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Mr. Jang said: “It was not So very long ago that Dr. Hu Shih, China’s leading philosopher, at the Institute of Pacific Relations made this! statement: ‘We are determined to solve our own urgent problems, to put our own house in order, and if necessary to fight for our existence. This portentious statement made last year, became a reality with the Loukouchiao incident on July 7. China has indeed found it necessary to fight for her existence. These few words can sum up more thoroughly’ and irrefutably than any indictment of broken treaties and pacts. the whys and wherefores of the conflict in China today. “For the past tour months or more, Chinese villages and _ cities have been destroyed, Chinese women and children have been murdered, Chinese universities bombed. There has been suicide squads and torturHarvey Lich, ed prisoners; and the world, used as it is to horror, stands newly shocked, at this increasing list of atrocities. Seeking to bring China to her knees, the Japanese militarists have been savage in their destruction on China and China realizing that it is conflict or submission is fighting back with all her heart and with all the resources at her command. “Let me first of all briefly summarize some of the events which have taken place ever since the Marco Polo bridge incident of July. 7. For more than a month after that ineident, hostilities were confined to the region north-of the Yellow: river, which Japan had long coveted. “Then when the Japanese navy swung into action at Shanghai, the Chinese generals and political leaders met at Nanking and voted that China must now resist at whatever the cost. The Chinese government solemnly declared that China’s. territorial integrity and sovereignty ‘wantonly violated in glaring violation of such peace instruments as the covenant of the League of Nations; the nine power treaty and the Paris ‘peace pact, and that China .was duty bound to defénd her territory as well as the sanctity of these treaties. “With that declaration the war got under way in earnest. Chinese war planes flew over the city, bombing the Japanese warships. Japeness planes and nava! guns also s vung into action and the fihgting spread the land. The little fellow also objects to carrying on the relief rolls’ ablebodied bums who never have delivered an honest day’s work and never will. He objects to spending billions on relief when only 65 per cent of the money actually goes for relief while 35 per cent goes to pay the salaries of slick parasites who officidte as supervisors, super-supervisors and lord high directors, and another army which is hired but does not function, to see to it that these political flunkies and parasites go straight. Fundamental Causes of Sino-Japanese War Discussed at Rotary j licked before they started, however, over a thirty miles by land and wat: er. > “The Chinese resisted fiercely and bravely. Far at odds because of their the Chinese have made up for that with their courage. But recent reports from indicated that the Japanese with their most earth-shaking bombardments, divisions of her bést troops, three fourts of her navy, artillery seige guns, and cavalry, has after over three months of fighting jenetrated into Tazang and has foreed the withdrawal of the Chinese troops from the Shanghai area, and are now driving on to Soochow and Nanking. Soochow was suddenly deinferior equipments, Shanghai have has been bombarded now for weeks. “Meanwhile in North China the Japanese were also gaining firmer control. After the Marco Polo bridge incident, Peiping was not long in going. Tientsin collapsed after a brief resistance: The 29th route army in that region were virtually for they were without defense and of China’s faithful observance of demilitarizing agreements. As the Jepanese troops continued to push to the southwest, the defending armies increased in numbers until now there are about 500,000 troops facing the Japanese along three fronts—west of Peiping on the railway to Suiyaun, south along the railway to Hankow and below Tientsin where Japanese were driving on Shangstroyed the other day and Nanking}{!! THREE GEESE CAUSE WILD GOOSE CHASE Three large white geese that Alfred Haddy, residing at the end of Park evenué, was carefully fattening for the holiday season, apparently suspecting their fate, took to their wings yesterday Shortly after noon. One bird named Santa Claus got as far as Broad Street in front of the Alpha store where Ed Martine’ grabbed it. Santa Claus was full of fight but Martine summoning several helpers, eventually subdued it. The second bird, named Governor Bradley, got as far as the Plaza and then decided to walk the rest of the way. Charlie Giani -captured this one. The third goose, named New Year Baby was unaccustomed to steering and flew through the big window of Miss Mamie Fenton’s home at the corner of Park avenue and Nimrod, giving Miss Fenton a bad shock. The goose was somewhat damaged and the window pane was a total loss. TEACHERS CLOSE YEARLYINSTITUTE The Nevada County Teachers Institute adjourned last. Tuesday after a very successful session. Wednesday members of the Nevada county teaching corps set out to view teaching methods in nearby cities. Auburn, SSacramento, Marysville, Colfax, Yuba City and Roseville were chosen for this purpose. This observation tour is a new idea in institute affairs and was proposed by Mrs. Ella Austin, Nevada County Superintendent of Schools. Members of the Institute unanimously voted that the 1938 meeting tung. was in the Nankow pass, the historic gateway into Mongolia. For two weeks the Chinese hidden in the peaks, put up heroic defense against a merciless mechanized attack. before they were finally driven out. “But the section of China north of the Yellow river has long been written off the map: as m:* litary untenable. China’s military leaders do not entertain much hope of those provinces against the onslaught of the Japanese military machine. Generalissimo ~Chiang Kaishek is assured that the region along the Yellow river can be well defended. And so China, preparing for a long war shall not waste and consume her resources in those areas, which are deemed indefensible. At the present, it is the general concensus of opinion, that China will stake her chances along the great wide Yellow river where impenetrable defenses are now being put up. It is there that the decisive battles will take place. “But let us look deeper into the question of the probable duration of Chinese military resistance. People have beén used to thinking in terms of.the Manchurian incident of 1931 and the Shanghai war of 1932 and wonder whether the present undeclared war, in spite of its magnitude will not end just as Fabruptly and just as peacefully. It so, they ask, why do anything about it. Those who entertain this uncertainty fail to take account of what has happened in China during the past two years. The Chinese people have been slow to move, but once aroused, they are determined to ‘see it through. Six years of Japanese aggression has finally resulted in a united China and today the people are standing behind the government resistance as oné man. They are not unaware of the grim realities of the situation, but they are facing it with a tragic sense of fate. They, know that they have two alternatives: resistance or complete political and cultural domination by the Japanese. “With all the odds against them, ‘they have chosen to resist. So far the Japanese have made some notable advances on the Northern fronts with their mechanized units. It is not unlikely. that within another month or two they will be able to gain con(Continued om Page Four) The most stubborn fighting ;~ holding . ’ should be held in Truckee. Highlights of the Institute were talks by Dr. Noel Keys of the University of California, State Senator J. L. Seawell and several Nevada county eachers. UNEMPLOYMENT CENSUS WILL END TOMORROW Every citizen of Nevada City who receives mail this week received an unemployment blank form from Franklin D. Roosevelt. Eighty-five million of these cards have been mailed all over the United States by the government in an effort to take, for the first time, an actual count of the unemployed throughout the nation. Every blank contains fourteen questions pertaining to the experience, abilities and times of employment of the unemployed person. None of the answers to the questions will be made public except in mass statistics. The government will use the information gathered by this unemployment census in an effort to help business re-employ the huge number of willing workers now idle throughout the country. The quesfionnaire should be filled out and mailed by tomorrow, November 20. FIREMEN FIND PLENTY OF SMOKE, NO FIRE Smoke issued from the roof of the house on Pine street, occupied by William Rowe and family, next door to the Pied Piper. The fire alarm was turned in and the fire department was on the spot promptly. Though there was smoke issuing from the attic no fire could be found. The fire engine returned to headquarters, but had thardly got there before summoned again. This time a square foot of shingles was ripped off and the mystery was explained. Onee a chimney had protruded through the roof. In reroofing the building, however, it was decided apparently to give up the use of the stove in the room below, the chimney was taken out and the roof shingled over the old flue. But the hole in the ceiling remained and the Rowes, having moved in recently set a stove and ran the pipe into the attic above the ceiling. Presently the top of,the house ‘smoke, ‘began .to ooze . DINNER SHOWS ALUMNI ALL SET FOR BIG GAME Ninety alumni.and former © students of all colleges attended the annual pre-big game dinner at the Uational Hotel Wednesday evening, Judge Raglan Tuttle, chairman of the Nevada County Alumni association of the University of California presided and acted as toastmaster. The assembly was called to order ‘Myers Mobley, general chairman of arrangements. A happy feature of the evening was the attendance of the Nevada City Glee Club under the direction ‘of Mrs. Marion Libbey and their colJege and school songs were greatly enjoyed. The roll call showed many ffom University of California, Stanford and Colorado sckeol of mines. Other universities represented were, Wyoming, Nevada, Minnesota, Harvard, Northwestern, Knox and University of Paris. Speakers at the dinner’ session were Mrs. Vera Ingram of Grass Valley, Wallace Butler of Grass Valley, Robert (Schnozzel) Deward of Grass Valley. The principal speaker of the evening was Orrin Powell, U. C. graduate and former district attorney of Placer county. PURSE SNATCHER TO HAVEHEARING Kenneth Cowls of -Grass Valley accused of attempting to rob Mrs. William Holland of her purse on the evening of vember 4, will today have his ppeliminary hearing at two o’clock rs. Holland accompanied by, Mrs. M. E. Henry was returning home about 6 o’clock in the evening when Cowls approached from the rear and tried to snatch her purse from under her arm. Failing in his grab for it, he seized Mrs. Holland and threw her from the high curb in front of the Ott home into the street injuring her arm. Mrs. Henry screamed for help and Cowls ran down Cottage street. He was apprehended a few minutes later by Chief of Police Garfield Robson on Pine street near the court house. * NEVADA CITY GIRL WINS HONORS AT U. €. Beryl Anne Godfrey, of ‘Nevada City, has been placed on the honor list of the University of California at Berkeley for distinguished work in her chosen field of study. . Miss Godfrey is a student in the College of Letters and Science, English major. INJURED BY ELECTRIC CURRENT While connecting electric wires in a switch box at the Mountaineer property south of Nevada City, Sunday, Charles Karkling suffered a badly burned hands and face when enveloped by a sudden flash of elec. tricity. Due to his glasses his eyes were somewhat protected, ‘though. they are badly affected. He is at his home on Factory street and getting along as well as can be expected. WESTERN STAR PROPERTY > The Western Star property in the Rough and Ready district closed for the winter a week or So ago. Quite a lot of prospecting was. done on the property by Mr. Pratt the past summer; ICAARD RANCH Rumors are going about Grass Valley that operations will start on the Icaard ranch property in the Rough and Ready district ‘before long. Considerable development has being obtained. i Miners Employed In Nevada County, 2,566 . Idaho-Maryland have been complet1 .Middle Yuba .:. been done with encouraging pets: ! me. survey of the mining industry within Nevada county, for the month ‘reveals the resumption of work im three mines, the Fortuna, Arctic and Greystone. Valley Mines, Sunflower, Greenhorn Creek, Giant .King and Peri-Haley have closed down for the time being. The number of men employed is . practically the same as recorded in October. There are 2,566: men now employed and the payroll amounts to $384,700. monthly. The Idaho Maryland is exploring the ground below the 2,000 foot level, the depth of the shaft, with a winze and reports a very satisfactory showing. With abundant rains and the assurance of a plentiful water supply resumption of work in several gravel mines is promised shortly. DAISY BLUE MINE Fifteen men are employed at the Daisy Blue mine on the Marks property northwest of Nevada City. The 10 stamp mill has “been assembled and installed an@ started operating two shifts Monday on ore mined by leasors. James Kistle holds the lease, the men are + working two shifts. IDAHO-MARYLAND MINES, INC. The Idaho-Maryland Mines company, located northeast of Grass Valley, have a payroll of 818 men employed in several mines and on the various ranches. There are 637 men in’ the Idaho-Maryland; 35 in the Bullion; 100 at Forbestown, Butte county, and 26 on the various ranch-— es conducted by the big company on its surface holdings. There are thoroughbred horses, cattle and splendid fruit orchard, noted for its fine apples. Two new 35 caf garages: one at the New Brunswick and one at the ed for the employees cars. A new 625 foot winze sunk below the 2,000 foot level of the mine has prov— en values at depth. .All previous work has been above the 2,000 foot level and consists of many miles of: tunnels. Several months ago the Forbestown property in Butte county employed but 12 men. The com-~ pany installed a large capacity mill last fall and has since put 100 men to work. No. LODE MINES Men Payroll Empire Star Empire North Star Pennsylvania .-. Prescott Hill Murchie Zeibright Idaho-Maryland New Brunswick Idaho Bullion Lava Cap Banner CentralBradley Spanish Copper Corral Others Golden Center NorambaguaSpring Hill Great Northern ene e een ee en eened Roh co kepeaean 830 $124,500 2,150 34,500 18,650 94,550 5,250 wen e ete de ns ceeneceen 37,950 9,000 2,150 19,500 6,000 2,150 Daisy. Blue -..2. 2,150. Stockton Hill 1,200 JE MES oecsiee ee 900 Treasure Box ie Lady Bug Sunflower Mt. View Golden Triangle Hot Water Boreham Morning Star Secret Golden Star Gracey Forquna Arctic Greystone aeness. ee ee enw cee eseee Peeerrrr reer ory Atlas oar ed ene een nn cenenenne Omega

Or. i» ‘oll ® Y (> ’ * TIS Thinking Out Loud H. M. L. The layman’s point of view, the “little fella’s slant’’ is something altogether alien to brain trusters, the highly trained economists, and the theorists. It does not involve calculus, or charts, and graphs, or, to any great extent percentages. The little chap’s point of view is extremely practical as regards all governmental reforms, measures, and tax acts. For ‘the little fellow hasn’t a wide, deep cushion between himself and hard times. At least 95 per cent of. United States business men operate on a very small margin of capital. They are usually within -hailing distance of that condition, known in the old days as “root hog or die.”’ The “ring around the rosy’’ game that Washington officialdom plays, and in a lesser degree, that the California state government plays, viewed near at hand and judged by its results, the little fellows of the country are beginning to damn wholeheartedly. By artificial means, that is to say subsidies in one form or another, some millions of farmers have been temporarily benefited. The prices for farm produce, wheat, cotton, meat, wool, things that people must have to Ssts-' tain life, have been jacked up. Factory workers throughout the country have formed unions, with governs mental approval and help, and they have jacked up their wages. The factory hand had to get higher prices for manufacturing things becaus» the things he ate’ and wore were costing more. Now the farmer finds he must pay high prices for his supplies, machinery, trucks and caterpillars, and he yelps for still higher prices for farm produce. The result is a game of ‘‘ring around the rosy.”’ In between, are all the little business men in the country, all the clerks, postoffice employes, stenographers, all the vast army of unorganized workers. While factory and farm workers together number around 17 million persons the rest of the population is ground between those two mill stones. The little fellow looking at these enormous forces which the Federal government has specially favored, giving them legal machinery with which to oppress the rest of the population, begins ~suspect that it belongs to the legion of forgotten men, The President in his message to Congress the other day spoke kindly but vaguely of doing something nice to free the little business men of the country of the tax burden, As a matter of fact little businessmen do approve of much the New Deal has done. The old age security act and the employment act, it is generally freely acknowledged are steps in the right direction. But the plague of the tax gatherers is a fearful loae for the little fellow to carry. Not the money especially, though that is an important item, but increased bookkeeping, the red tape, the endless carbon copies, the monthly, semiannual or annual reports, these are things that harry the little fellow. In California for instance the Federal government collects an income tax, a gas tax, and a social security tax. The latter is paid once a month. The state government collects the employment insurance tax, the sales tax, gas tax, and automobile tax. The county government collects real and personal property taxes, the city government ditto, plus various license fees for doing business. Most business men pay twelve different taxes a year to five or six different tax. collectors. It would greatly sipplify and reduce the cost of government if, in each county, there was one tax collecting agency to gather in all the taxes due county, state and federal governments. At one fell swoop an army of tax gatherers could be dismissed and the load carried by the little fellow by that much re-. duced. The tax gatherers would perforce find other means to earn their _ living, thus producing instead of tax collector’s office the only one in all the land. This of course is only the dream of a visionary. But it would be extremely easy for the -state and federal governments acting together to eliminate 75 per cent of the cost of gathering taxes by enacting legisla. tion which would make the county tax collector’s the only one in all Nevada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ton The Liberty of the Press consists ‘in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives and for justifiable ends. .From the Californian, March 15, 1848: — Alexander HamilVol. 11, No. 91. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1937. There were a large number ot visiting Rotarians yesterday at the meeting of the local club in the National Hotel. Monroe Jang, an American Chinese of Marysville, was the guest speaker and gave a_ remarkably clear address on the Japanase-Chinese war. Members of the Rotary club enrolled in the Red Cross for the year. Dr. Walter Hawkins taking their membership. dues. treasurer of Yuba county, a friend of Yang brought him up from Marysville,. and the large attendance of Rotarians from other clubs and visitors from Grass Valley and elsewhere can be attributed to the wide interest in the war in the Orient upon which Jang spoke. As a high school graduate of Marysville, Jang won a cash prize offered by the Bank of America for the best essay in California. There will be no meeting of the Rotary club next deek due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Mr. Jang said: “It was not So very long ago that Dr. Hu Shih, China’s leading philosopher, at the Institute of Pacific Relations made this! statement: ‘We are determined to solve our own urgent problems, to put our own house in order, and if necessary to fight for our existence. This portentious statement made last year, became a reality with the Loukouchiao incident on July 7. China has indeed found it necessary to fight for her existence. These few words can sum up more thoroughly’ and irrefutably than any indictment of broken treaties and pacts. the whys and wherefores of the conflict in China today. “For the past tour months or more, Chinese villages and _ cities have been destroyed, Chinese women and children have been murdered, Chinese universities bombed. There has been suicide squads and torturHarvey Lich, ed prisoners; and the world, used as it is to horror, stands newly shocked, at this increasing list of atrocities. Seeking to bring China to her knees, the Japanese militarists have been savage in their destruction on China and China realizing that it is conflict or submission is fighting back with all her heart and with all the resources at her command. “Let me first of all briefly summarize some of the events which have taken place ever since the Marco Polo bridge incident of July. 7. For more than a month after that ineident, hostilities were confined to the region north-of the Yellow: river, which Japan had long coveted. “Then when the Japanese navy swung into action at Shanghai, the Chinese generals and political leaders met at Nanking and voted that China must now resist at whatever the cost. The Chinese government solemnly declared that China’s. territorial integrity and sovereignty ‘wantonly violated in glaring violation of such peace instruments as the covenant of the League of Nations; the nine power treaty and the Paris ‘peace pact, and that China .was duty bound to defénd her territory as well as the sanctity of these treaties. “With that declaration the war got under way in earnest. Chinese war planes flew over the city, bombing the Japanese warships. Japeness planes and nava! guns also s vung into action and the fihgting spread the land. The little fellow also objects to carrying on the relief rolls’ ablebodied bums who never have delivered an honest day’s work and never will. He objects to spending billions on relief when only 65 per cent of the money actually goes for relief while 35 per cent goes to pay the salaries of slick parasites who officidte as supervisors, super-supervisors and lord high directors, and another army which is hired but does not function, to see to it that these political flunkies and parasites go straight. Fundamental Causes of Sino-Japanese War Discussed at Rotary j licked before they started, however, over a thirty miles by land and wat: er. > “The Chinese resisted fiercely and bravely. Far at odds because of their the Chinese have made up for that with their courage. But recent reports from indicated that the Japanese with their most earth-shaking bombardments, divisions of her bést troops, three fourts of her navy, artillery seige guns, and cavalry, has after over three months of fighting jenetrated into Tazang and has foreed the withdrawal of the Chinese troops from the Shanghai area, and are now driving on to Soochow and Nanking. Soochow was suddenly deinferior equipments, Shanghai have has been bombarded now for weeks. “Meanwhile in North China the Japanese were also gaining firmer control. After the Marco Polo bridge incident, Peiping was not long in going. Tientsin collapsed after a brief resistance: The 29th route army in that region were virtually for they were without defense and of China’s faithful observance of demilitarizing agreements. As the Jepanese troops continued to push to the southwest, the defending armies increased in numbers until now there are about 500,000 troops facing the Japanese along three fronts—west of Peiping on the railway to Suiyaun, south along the railway to Hankow and below Tientsin where Japanese were driving on Shangstroyed the other day and Nanking}{!! THREE GEESE CAUSE WILD GOOSE CHASE Three large white geese that Alfred Haddy, residing at the end of Park evenué, was carefully fattening for the holiday season, apparently suspecting their fate, took to their wings yesterday Shortly after noon. One bird named Santa Claus got as far as Broad Street in front of the Alpha store where Ed Martine’ grabbed it. Santa Claus was full of fight but Martine summoning several helpers, eventually subdued it. The second bird, named Governor Bradley, got as far as the Plaza and then decided to walk the rest of the way. Charlie Giani -captured this one. The third goose, named New Year Baby was unaccustomed to steering and flew through the big window of Miss Mamie Fenton’s home at the corner of Park avenue and Nimrod, giving Miss Fenton a bad shock. The goose was somewhat damaged and the window pane was a total loss. TEACHERS CLOSE YEARLYINSTITUTE The Nevada County Teachers Institute adjourned last. Tuesday after a very successful session. Wednesday members of the Nevada county teaching corps set out to view teaching methods in nearby cities. Auburn, SSacramento, Marysville, Colfax, Yuba City and Roseville were chosen for this purpose. This observation tour is a new idea in institute affairs and was proposed by Mrs. Ella Austin, Nevada County Superintendent of Schools. Members of the Institute unanimously voted that the 1938 meeting tung. was in the Nankow pass, the historic gateway into Mongolia. For two weeks the Chinese hidden in the peaks, put up heroic defense against a merciless mechanized attack. before they were finally driven out. “But the section of China north of the Yellow river has long been written off the map: as m:* litary untenable. China’s military leaders do not entertain much hope of those provinces against the onslaught of the Japanese military machine. Generalissimo ~Chiang Kaishek is assured that the region along the Yellow river can be well defended. And so China, preparing for a long war shall not waste and consume her resources in those areas, which are deemed indefensible. At the present, it is the general concensus of opinion, that China will stake her chances along the great wide Yellow river where impenetrable defenses are now being put up. It is there that the decisive battles will take place.

“But let us look deeper into the question of the probable duration of Chinese military resistance. People have beén used to thinking in terms of.the Manchurian incident of 1931 and the Shanghai war of 1932 and wonder whether the present undeclared war, in spite of its magnitude will not end just as Fabruptly and just as peacefully. It so, they ask, why do anything about it. Those who entertain this uncertainty fail to take account of what has happened in China during the past two years. The Chinese people have been slow to move, but once aroused, they are determined to ‘see it through. Six years of Japanese aggression has finally resulted in a united China and today the people are standing behind the government resistance as oné man. They are not unaware of the grim realities of the situation, but they are facing it with a tragic sense of fate. They, know that they have two alternatives: resistance or complete political and cultural domination by the Japanese. “With all the odds against them, ‘they have chosen to resist. So far the Japanese have made some notable advances on the Northern fronts with their mechanized units. It is not unlikely. that within another month or two they will be able to gain con(Continued om Page Four) The most stubborn fighting ;~ holding . ’ should be held in Truckee. Highlights of the Institute were talks by Dr. Noel Keys of the University of California, State Senator J. L. Seawell and several Nevada county eachers. UNEMPLOYMENT CENSUS WILL END TOMORROW Every citizen of Nevada City who receives mail this week received an unemployment blank form from Franklin D. Roosevelt. Eighty-five million of these cards have been mailed all over the United States by the government in an effort to take, for the first time, an actual count of the unemployed throughout the nation. Every blank contains fourteen questions pertaining to the experience, abilities and times of employment of the unemployed person. None of the answers to the questions will be made public except in mass statistics. The government will use the information gathered by this unemployment census in an effort to help business re-employ the huge number of willing workers now idle throughout the country. The quesfionnaire should be filled out and mailed by tomorrow, November 20. FIREMEN FIND PLENTY OF SMOKE, NO FIRE Smoke issued from the roof of the house on Pine street, occupied by William Rowe and family, next door to the Pied Piper. The fire alarm was turned in and the fire department was on the spot promptly. Though there was smoke issuing from the attic no fire could be found. The fire engine returned to headquarters, but had thardly got there before summoned again. This time a square foot of shingles was ripped off and the mystery was explained. Onee a chimney had protruded through the roof. In reroofing the building, however, it was decided apparently to give up the use of the stove in the room below, the chimney was taken out and the roof shingled over the old flue. But the hole in the ceiling remained and the Rowes, having moved in recently set a stove and ran the pipe into the attic above the ceiling. Presently the top of,the house ‘smoke, ‘began .to ooze . DINNER SHOWS ALUMNI ALL SET FOR BIG GAME Ninety alumni.and former © students of all colleges attended the annual pre-big game dinner at the Uational Hotel Wednesday evening, Judge Raglan Tuttle, chairman of the Nevada County Alumni association of the University of California presided and acted as toastmaster. The assembly was called to order ‘Myers Mobley, general chairman of arrangements. A happy feature of the evening was the attendance of the Nevada City Glee Club under the direction ‘of Mrs. Marion Libbey and their colJege and school songs were greatly enjoyed. The roll call showed many ffom University of California, Stanford and Colorado sckeol of mines. Other universities represented were, Wyoming, Nevada, Minnesota, Harvard, Northwestern, Knox and University of Paris. Speakers at the dinner’ session were Mrs. Vera Ingram of Grass Valley, Wallace Butler of Grass Valley, Robert (Schnozzel) Deward of Grass Valley. The principal speaker of the evening was Orrin Powell, U. C. graduate and former district attorney of Placer county. PURSE SNATCHER TO HAVEHEARING Kenneth Cowls of -Grass Valley accused of attempting to rob Mrs. William Holland of her purse on the evening of vember 4, will today have his ppeliminary hearing at two o’clock rs. Holland accompanied by, Mrs. M. E. Henry was returning home about 6 o’clock in the evening when Cowls approached from the rear and tried to snatch her purse from under her arm. Failing in his grab for it, he seized Mrs. Holland and threw her from the high curb in front of the Ott home into the street injuring her arm. Mrs. Henry screamed for help and Cowls ran down Cottage street. He was apprehended a few minutes later by Chief of Police Garfield Robson on Pine street near the court house. * NEVADA CITY GIRL WINS HONORS AT U. €. Beryl Anne Godfrey, of ‘Nevada City, has been placed on the honor list of the University of California at Berkeley for distinguished work in her chosen field of study. . Miss Godfrey is a student in the College of Letters and Science, English major. INJURED BY ELECTRIC CURRENT While connecting electric wires in a switch box at the Mountaineer property south of Nevada City, Sunday, Charles Karkling suffered a badly burned hands and face when enveloped by a sudden flash of elec. tricity. Due to his glasses his eyes were somewhat protected, ‘though. they are badly affected. He is at his home on Factory street and getting along as well as can be expected. WESTERN STAR PROPERTY > The Western Star property in the Rough and Ready district closed for the winter a week or So ago. Quite a lot of prospecting was. done on the property by Mr. Pratt the past summer; ICAARD RANCH Rumors are going about Grass Valley that operations will start on the Icaard ranch property in the Rough and Ready district ‘before long. Considerable development has being obtained. i Miners Employed In Nevada County, 2,566 . Idaho-Maryland have been complet1 .Middle Yuba .:. been done with encouraging pets: ! me. survey of the mining industry within Nevada county, for the month ‘reveals the resumption of work im three mines, the Fortuna, Arctic and Greystone. Valley Mines, Sunflower, Greenhorn Creek, Giant .King and Peri-Haley have closed down for the time being. The number of men employed is . practically the same as recorded in October. There are 2,566: men now employed and the payroll amounts to $384,700. monthly. The Idaho Maryland is exploring the ground below the 2,000 foot level, the depth of the shaft, with a winze and reports a very satisfactory showing. With abundant rains and the assurance of a plentiful water supply resumption of work in several gravel mines is promised shortly. DAISY BLUE MINE Fifteen men are employed at the Daisy Blue mine on the Marks property northwest of Nevada City. The 10 stamp mill has “been assembled and installed an@ started operating two shifts Monday on ore mined by leasors. James Kistle holds the lease, the men are + working two shifts. IDAHO-MARYLAND MINES, INC. The Idaho-Maryland Mines company, located northeast of Grass Valley, have a payroll of 818 men employed in several mines and on the various ranches. There are 637 men in’ the Idaho-Maryland; 35 in the Bullion; 100 at Forbestown, Butte county, and 26 on the various ranch-— es conducted by the big company on its surface holdings. There are thoroughbred horses, cattle and splendid fruit orchard, noted for its fine apples. Two new 35 caf garages: one at the New Brunswick and one at the ed for the employees cars. A new 625 foot winze sunk below the 2,000 foot level of the mine has prov— en values at depth. .All previous work has been above the 2,000 foot level and consists of many miles of: tunnels. Several months ago the Forbestown property in Butte county employed but 12 men. The com-~ pany installed a large capacity mill last fall and has since put 100 men to work. No. LODE MINES Men Payroll Empire Star Empire North Star Pennsylvania .-. 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