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Title: Volume 063-4 - October 2009 Collection Type: Books and Periodicals Collection Name: Nevada County Historical Society Bulletins # of Pages: 6 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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NCHS Bulletin October 2009 Charles and Emily Jenkins Clinch in the 1930s. Chicago Park and North San Juan and other districts by car, often taking along his friend George Starr. He urged merchants to live up to their agreements and not to profiteer, and urged consumers to shop under the blue eagle. He told audience that he had to report each month to Creel and there was only one report he wanted to give: 100 percent compliance. “Your blue eagle card,” Clinch told his hearers, “is an evidence now of your belief in American principles and when conditions are improved—which they will be—you will feel proud that you assisted in bringing about increased wages, employment, and shorter hours.” Clinch let people know that his position came with no remuneration. “The only reward is to perform the duties conscientiously and in order to do so I must have the cooperation of all.” In that first summer and fall of the New Deal, Clinch got the cooperation he sought. He even persuaded his friende. Edmund Kinyon to serve on the board of Grass Valley Improvement Association, a group organized to promote the NRA. Kinyon and The Union defended NRA and the New Deal against critics such as former Democratic presidential candidate Al Smith and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Given that the country had chosen this course The Union editor wrote: “the sensible and patriotic thing is to give the New Deal all of the time it needs for the working out of its myriad projects of betterment.” The editor continued: “By one expedient and another employment has returned to immense numbers of people formerly unemployed and destitute.” During 1933 America learned to sing along with the three pigs in the new Disney movie of that year, Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf. The wolf was the Depression, and Nevada County had ample evidence that it had barred the door. In October 1933 Clinch reported to George Creel that 59 new jobs and a $4,286 increase in payroll had resulted from the imposition of NRA regulation in the county; business activity had increased by five percent. Clinch was able to file the report he had hoped for—Nevada County was behind the NRA. [Note: This article is abridged with permission fron Gage McKinney's newest book, The 1930s: No Depression Here, available this month from local bookstores or online from www.comstockbonanza.com] NEVADA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY P.O. Box 1300, Nevada City, CA 95959 www.nevadacountyhistory.org EXECUTIVE BOARD President Vice President Executive Secretary Treasurer Allen De Negri William Durbrow Pat Chesnut Daniel Ketcham DIRECTORS Firehouse Museum North Star Mining Museum Searls Historical Library Genealogical Research NCNGRR/Transportation Museum Division NCHS Books Division Bulletin Editor Wally Hagaman Glenn Jones Ed Tyson Maria Brower Madelyn Helling Desmond Gallagher Maria Brower Newsletter Editor Pat Chesnut Membership Wayne Teague Webmaster Marilou Ficklin Publicity Daniel Ketcham Archivist Gay Conner Director-at-Large Al Dittmann Director-at-Large Brita Rozynski Director-at-Large Brian Blair email: [email protected] Searls Historical Library 214 Church Street, Nevada City (530) 265-5910 Open 1-4 pm daily (except Sundays and holidays) Firehouse Museum 214 Main Street, Nevada City (530) 265-5468 Open May . to Oct. 31: 1-4 pm daily (except Mon. & Thurs.) Closed Nov. . to April 30 except for tours by appointment North Star Mining Museum Allison Ranch Road, Grass Valley (530) 273-4255 Open May . to October 15 from 10 am to 5 pm daily Railroad and Transportation Museum 5 Kidder Court, Nevada City (530) 470-0902 May . to Oct. 31: Open 10 am to 4 pm (closed Wed. and Thurs.) Nov. . to April 30: Open 10 am to 4 pm, Saturday and Sunday NCHS Books om 511 North Pine St., Nevada City, CA 95959 (530) 265-4312