January 10, 1968 (12 pages)

* “ ™ > a D tic Nevada‘County Nugget Wednéiday, Jan. 107"1968" “NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET 4 EDITORIAL Gaerotl M. Stack Editor DON’T KILL THE GOOSE ‘ Economists and fiscal experts are beginning to note that some European financial leaders are sensing a change of mood in the American people; or at least are aware of factors that may well create a public uprising against foreign nations who accept our largesse but attack the dollar. Their major fear is that enormous federal spending programs shortly become so burdensome that the American people will rebel, especially against foreign handouts to nations who have long gotten by with cynical selfishness. They cite such re ps bye During 1967 oo appropriated $157.4 billion, a oneniae increase of $15.5 billion; in the four Johnson years, $53.7 billion. oe Cash s iny by the federal government for the year en pages ga Re 30 is estimated at $180 billion, up about billion in four LBJ years. ‘This is the royal road to ruin, and our foreign beneficiaries well know it. They don’t want us to kill the goose that is laying their golden eggs; and neither should we, although for different reasons. GROWTH PAYS DIVIDENDS One of the major factors in the continued economic po of California and the natiorris the role plxyed y the utilities. As an example, the Edison Electric Institute has estimated that the nation’s electric power companies will have spent a record $5.9 billion for new construction in 1967. This will bring their total investment in plant and equipment to more than$70 billion. In California, Pacific Gas and Electric Company invested in gas and electric facilities during 1 at the rate of more than a million dollars every worki day. And PG&E’s capital improvement program wi continue during the coming year at an accelerated pace — an estimated $275 million total. One of the most popular phases of PG&E’s 1968 program, no doubt, will be its conversion of parts of. its existing electric distribution system from overhead to underground. Eight million dollars has been budg~ eted. by the company for this work. In addition, the company plans to step up its program of undergrounding electric service in new residential subdivisions. Total undergrounding is, of course, an eventual goal but one that cannot be reached quickly without high cost to company and consumers. PG&E’s 1968 plans are a rich dividend to the public in that they will involve no rate increase, and minimal cost to directly affected customers. DISSENT VS. DISAGREEMENT Although there are strong elements of synonymy in the words “dissent” and “ ent,” the former ‘word is going through one of those changes in emphasis that so often alter old meanings and change the language. “Liberal” and “Conservative” are two other examples of recent note. Dissent, as an active philosophy or policy, has become an end in itself; a raison d’etre; the golden calf of the new nihilism. As now practiced it has become a destructive force; far removed from the creative force it has had, for instance;.in the famous judicial dissents which often have eventually molded the legal framework of our society. Historian Daniel J. Boorstin of the University of Chicago has characterized the new dissent in strong terms. “People who disagree,” he said in a recent speech, have an argument, but people who dissent have a quarrel. People may disagree but may. count themselves in a majority; but a eat who dissents is by definition in a rath A liberal society thrives on disagreement but is killed by dissension. Disagreement is the lifeblood of democracy, dissension is its cancer.” é Dr. Boorstin finds a major source of dissent “in the world of those who consider themselves intellectual.” He warns that far from being constructive, as were the intellectual champions of the right to disagree such as Jefferson, Holmes, and Dewey, “professional dissenters do not and cannot seek to assimilate their program or ideals into American culture. Their main object is to preserve their separate identity as a disseating ming: . Dissent, then, has tended to become the conformity of our most educated classes.” Those university and college heads and professors who have knelt before the golden calf of dissent should take heed of Dr. Boorstin’s dissection of their intellectual failure. It is a false and dangerous god for our educational leaders to follow. . . POLITICAL PARADE California gave birth to a new. political breed back ih ™ the early 1930’s—professional ep management firms. Today these California political pioneers work out the 50 states of the One of the early ecinn a senior partner in taker peg paki Spe ohare serve as a special consultant. ti Jim Dorais has been = friend and partner for years. 1968 marks his 28th ear with Whitaker & Baxter: that time he has contributed more to the art of camt than most theoreticians yet know exists. It is about that contribution —this new California political breed—which this column is written. Until the late 1920’s and early 1930’s when the late Clem Whitaker, Sr. and Leone Baxter determined to make a prideful, aboveboard business of political campaigns, the art was largely a farée in endless acts. To that date candidates for office and other political clients groping frantically for help in ing for a presmuwected campaign relied for the most part on friends or political hacks to guide them through -an_ election maze. Cempaten finances, techniques and or; tion were largely heared on the back of match books. : _ With the advent. of the fulltime professiona! campaign manager, campaigns were put on a_businessli basis —as fully competent and sophisticated as the operation of a bank or other business enterprize. It was into this Dorais stepped in 1899 during orais in. during Calif pat aug” Gr & Eggs or $30 Every Thursday days. A superb writer and politieal analyst, Dorais had little of the political background that schools can offer today. In the midst of the depression on graduating from high school in Eureka, California, he came to San Francisco looking for a job and landed one — as a bookkeeper. It is in the unique area of _ campaign ‘finance that Jim Dorais probably has made his greatest contribution to the professional campaign. management breed. He helped develop the art of campaign finance and budgeting to a science which assures political clients of true dollar value for every dollar spent. Intelligent campaign budgets make good campaign strategy, tactics -and organization possible of achievement. pe budge’ ting, like defeats good tan Gan good causes. Whether or not the political textbooks ever fully capture the contribution of James. Dorais to the art of professional cam mani the real tical 5 ea it, have profited by it, and syn bate businesses because of i *James Dorais, like the late Clem Whitaker, Sr. and Leone Baxter, has made a major contribution to intelligent political activism. It is the mark of _ the man that he has contributed significantly to bringi the new political breed of tin fessional campaign manage. .» ment firms to maturity. TWO MINUTES WITH THE BIBLE _ BY CORNELIUS R. STAM PRES. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60635 THE TRIUMPH OF FAITH “This. is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith” (i John 5:4). There are many who look at faith as an abstract sort of thing. Some suppose faith is merely looking on the bright side of things; to others it is will-power; still others confuse it with a person’s view-point. In: the Bible faith is simply believing God. The Apostle Paul declares in Rom. 4:5: “To him that worketh not but BELIEVETH on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his FAITH is counted for righteousness.” The above passage from I John also makes this plain, when seen in its context: “This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our FAITH. world but he that BELIEVETH that Jesus is the Son of God” (Vers. 4,5). It is, then, the believer in Christ, and only the believer in Christ, who can overcome the world. Unbelievers are swept away by the attractions and the pretentions of this worldSt. Paul declared by divine inspiration that unbelievers follow “the course of this world,” directed by Satan, “the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience” (Eph. 2:2) . We do not mean to imply: that believers are not often tempted to follow “the course of this world.” Indeed the world would sometimes dominate us, but “this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.” “Who is he that overcometh the Why Beg? Ishwar Shrestha is a Nepalese government worker on leave to study public administration at the University of Southern California so that he can go back and “build up my_ country.” The tiny Himalayan nation has more than its share of poverty and beggars, and bhang, or marijuana, is a way of life for too many natives. As if things weren't bad enough, it recently has . had an invasion of hippies. Shrestha. is understandably puzzled by them. He finds it difficult to comprehend a gen‘eration of young Americans whose idea of a career is begging for a living ad getting high as often as le. “If everybody.is a hippie,”. he asked recently, “how will society survive? It isa question one can ask.” Ne Yes, it is indeed, Ishwar. And one no hi so far has cared or been able to answer. Bonds and Votes hatched out of the basket of election. eggs laid by the United States Suv--~me Court in its “one man, ~*e” ruling. It’s a live., Ww, movement attacking s long-standing ‘two-thirds rule’ for passage of school and various other bond issues, state and local. Mothering the chick is Pasadena attorney John Sobieski. He has proposed to the Pasa. dena B: of Education that it challenge the constitution=: ality of that law. Because, he ; claims, the law forces twice. as. many people to vote for’ a bond issue as vote against: it, the ap eonents are’ de-: prived one man, one vote equality. He believes the law would be judged unconstitutional. Such an action would profoun change things al around the state — and in other states that have similar laws. The California Teachers Association nts out that PUBLISHED EVERY ‘WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY Telephone 265-2471 Garrett Stack, Editor Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California, Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court , Juce 3, 1960. DecreeNo, 12, 406, Subscription Rates: one year, $3,00; two years, $5, 00, school bond 2 PENA PSI only 85 of NEVADA COUNTY NUGGEY. lection: “in. California ‘dus ing the 1966-67 school year achieved the required 66.7 per cent favorable vote needed for e, This was 41.1 cent of the elections. But 78.8 per cent, the measures uy ced a majority favorable -Montana has a law that seeks to weaken minority rule of this sort by pene ing a simple majority but di the ‘election void unless 6 per cent of the registered votory nctunlly roe: ‘Of seen, a per cent minority coul defeat a bond ra eg by ust staying home, but at st that’s not as minor a minority as the 14 or 15 per cent that too often do rule. WASHINGTON — While peace groups and other splin19[9S7 PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER of the PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION ‘ ter movements are j ig noises ut cha at next year’s Democratic nominating convention, polls of 1964 delegates, many of whom will be returning 1968, show the President remains the overwhelming choice of his party’s regulars.

* “ ™ > a D tic Nevada‘County Nugget Wednéiday, Jan. 107"1968" “NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET 4 EDITORIAL Gaerotl M. Stack Editor DON’T KILL THE GOOSE ‘ Economists and fiscal experts are beginning to note that some European financial leaders are sensing a change of mood in the American people; or at least are aware of factors that may well create a public uprising against foreign nations who accept our largesse but attack the dollar. Their major fear is that enormous federal spending programs shortly become so burdensome that the American people will rebel, especially against foreign handouts to nations who have long gotten by with cynical selfishness. They cite such re ps bye During 1967 oo appropriated $157.4 billion, a oneniae increase of $15.5 billion; in the four Johnson years, $53.7 billion. oe Cash s iny by the federal government for the year en pages ga Re 30 is estimated at $180 billion, up about billion in four LBJ years. ‘This is the royal road to ruin, and our foreign beneficiaries well know it. They don’t want us to kill the goose that is laying their golden eggs; and neither should we, although for different reasons. GROWTH PAYS DIVIDENDS One of the major factors in the continued economic po of California and the natiorris the role plxyed y the utilities. As an example, the Edison Electric Institute has estimated that the nation’s electric power companies will have spent a record $5.9 billion for new construction in 1967. This will bring their total investment in plant and equipment to more than$70 billion. In California, Pacific Gas and Electric Company invested in gas and electric facilities during 1 at the rate of more than a million dollars every worki day. And PG&E’s capital improvement program wi continue during the coming year at an accelerated pace — an estimated $275 million total. One of the most popular phases of PG&E’s 1968 program, no doubt, will be its conversion of parts of. its existing electric distribution system from overhead to underground. Eight million dollars has been budg~ eted. by the company for this work. In addition, the company plans to step up its program of undergrounding electric service in new residential subdivisions. Total undergrounding is, of course, an eventual goal but one that cannot be reached quickly without high cost to company and consumers. PG&E’s 1968 plans are a rich dividend to the public in that they will involve no rate increase, and minimal cost to directly affected customers. DISSENT VS. DISAGREEMENT Although there are strong elements of synonymy in the words “dissent” and “ ent,” the former ‘word is going through one of those changes in emphasis that so often alter old meanings and change the language. “Liberal” and “Conservative” are two other examples of recent note. Dissent, as an active philosophy or policy, has become an end in itself; a raison d’etre; the golden calf of the new nihilism. As now practiced it has become a destructive force; far removed from the creative force it has had, for instance;.in the famous judicial dissents which often have eventually molded the legal framework of our society. Historian Daniel J. Boorstin of the University of Chicago has characterized the new dissent in strong terms. “People who disagree,” he said in a recent speech, have an argument, but people who dissent have a quarrel. People may disagree but may. count themselves in a majority; but a eat who dissents is by definition in a rath A liberal society thrives on disagreement but is killed by dissension. Disagreement is the lifeblood of democracy, dissension is its cancer.” é Dr. Boorstin finds a major source of dissent “in the world of those who consider themselves intellectual.” He warns that far from being constructive, as were the intellectual champions of the right to disagree such as Jefferson, Holmes, and Dewey, “professional dissenters do not and cannot seek to assimilate their program or ideals into American culture. Their main object is to preserve their separate identity as a disseating ming: .. Dissent, then, has tended to become the conformity of our most educated classes.” Those university and college heads and professors who have knelt before the golden calf of dissent should take heed of Dr. Boorstin’s dissection of their intellectual failure. It is a false and dangerous god for our educational leaders to follow. . . POLITICAL PARADE California gave birth to a new. political breed back ih ™ the early 1930’s—professional ep management firms. Today these California political pioneers work out the 50 states of the One of the early ecinn a senior partner in taker peg paki Spe ohare serve as a special consultant. ti Jim Dorais has been = friend and partner for years. 1968 marks his 28th ear with Whitaker & Baxter: that time he has contributed more to the art of camt than most theoreticians yet know exists. It is about that contribution —this new California political breed—which this column is written. Until the late 1920’s and early 1930’s when the late Clem Whitaker, Sr. and Leone Baxter determined to make a prideful, aboveboard business of political campaigns, the art was largely a farée in endless acts. To that date candidates for office and other political clients groping frantically for help in ing for a presmuwected campaign relied for the most part on friends or political hacks to guide them through -an_ election maze. Cempaten finances, techniques and or; tion were largely heared on the back of match books. : _ With the advent. of the fulltime professiona! campaign manager, campaigns were put on a_businessli basis —as fully competent and sophisticated as the operation of a bank or other business enterprize. It was into this Dorais stepped in 1899 during orais in. during Calif pat aug” Gr & Eggs or $30 Every Thursday days. A superb writer and politieal analyst, Dorais had little of the political background that schools can offer today. In the midst of the depression on graduating from high school in Eureka, California, he came to San Francisco looking for a job and landed one — as a bookkeeper. It is in the unique area of _ campaign ‘finance that Jim Dorais probably has made his greatest contribution to the professional campaign. management breed. He helped develop the art of campaign finance and budgeting to a science which assures political clients of true dollar value for every dollar spent. Intelligent campaign budgets make good campaign strategy, tactics -and organization possible of achievement. pe budge’ ting, like

defeats good tan Gan good causes. Whether or not the political textbooks ever fully capture the contribution of James. Dorais to the art of professional cam mani the real tical 5 ea it, have profited by it, and syn bate businesses because of i *James Dorais, like the late Clem Whitaker, Sr. and Leone Baxter, has made a major contribution to intelligent political activism. It is the mark of _ the man that he has contributed significantly to bringi the new political breed of tin fessional campaign manage. .» ment firms to maturity. TWO MINUTES WITH THE BIBLE _ BY CORNELIUS R. STAM PRES. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60635 THE TRIUMPH OF FAITH “This. is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith” (i John 5:4). There are many who look at faith as an abstract sort of thing. Some suppose faith is merely looking on the bright side of things; to others it is will-power; still others confuse it with a person’s view-point. In: the Bible faith is simply believing God. The Apostle Paul declares in Rom. 4:5: “To him that worketh not but BELIEVETH on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his FAITH is counted for righteousness.” The above passage from I John also makes this plain, when seen in its context: “This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our FAITH. world but he that BELIEVETH that Jesus is the Son of God” (Vers. 4,5). It is, then, the believer in Christ, and only the believer in Christ, who can overcome the world. Unbelievers are swept away by the attractions and the pretentions of this worldSt. Paul declared by divine inspiration that unbelievers follow “the course of this world,” directed by Satan, “the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience” (Eph. 2:2) . We do not mean to imply: that believers are not often tempted to follow “the course of this world.” Indeed the world would sometimes dominate us, but “this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.” “Who is he that overcometh the Why Beg? Ishwar Shrestha is a Nepalese government worker on leave to study public administration at the University of Southern California so that he can go back and “build up my_ country.” The tiny Himalayan nation has more than its share of poverty and beggars, and bhang, or marijuana, is a way of life for too many natives. As if things weren't bad enough, it recently has . had an invasion of hippies. Shrestha. is understandably puzzled by them. He finds it difficult to comprehend a gen‘eration of young Americans whose idea of a career is begging for a living ad getting high as often as le. “If everybody.is a hippie,”. he asked recently, “how will society survive? It isa question one can ask.” Ne Yes, it is indeed, Ishwar. And one no hi so far has cared or been able to answer. Bonds and Votes hatched out of the basket of election. eggs laid by the United States Suv--~me Court in its “one man, ~*e” ruling. It’s a live., Ww, movement attacking s long-standing ‘two-thirds rule’ for passage of school and various other bond issues, state and local. Mothering the chick is Pasadena attorney John Sobieski. He has proposed to the Pasa. dena B: of Education that it challenge the constitution=: ality of that law. Because, he ; claims, the law forces twice. as. many people to vote for’ a bond issue as vote against: it, the ap eonents are’ de-: prived one man, one vote equality. He believes the law would be judged unconstitutional. Such an action would profoun change things al around the state — and in other states that have similar laws. The California Teachers Association nts out that PUBLISHED EVERY ‘WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY Telephone 265-2471 Garrett Stack, Editor Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California, Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court , Juce 3, 1960. DecreeNo, 12, 406, Subscription Rates: one year, $3,00; two years, $5, 00, school bond 2 PENA PSI only 85 of NEVADA COUNTY NUGGEY. lection: “in. California ‘dus ing the 1966-67 school year achieved the required 66.7 per cent favorable vote needed for e, This was 41.1 cent of the elections. But 78.8 per cent, the measures uy ced a majority favorable -Montana has a law that seeks to weaken minority rule of this sort by pene ing a simple majority but di the ‘election void unless 6 per cent of the registered votory nctunlly roe: ‘Of seen, a per cent minority coul defeat a bond ra eg by ust staying home, but at st that’s not as minor a minority as the 14 or 15 per cent that too often do rule. WASHINGTON — While peace groups and other splin19[9S7 PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER of the PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION ‘ ter movements are j ig noises ut cha at next year’s Democratic nominating convention, polls of 1964 delegates, many of whom will be returning 1968, show the President remains the overwhelming choice of his party’s regulars.