The Cedarville Herald, Volume 49, Numbers 1-26

T H E < * E I > A U V I I X K X I K R A I J > ; ■ . _ • i " V . '■■ ................ ......... .. ,, . , , . . ■. . ’ . .... ; * a . X X\K? K IU I f - — e d i t o r a n d r n i u n i i E R : KaWrod at U m Fwt-QfSca* Co4*w-vUI«, 0 ., October 31,1387, ** wcond 1 class aaattar. 1 FKTPAY» JANUARY 32, S92G. THE HAND IS THE HAND OF ESAU— BUT— A clever tri ’k was pat over tho members o f the Ohio legislature in tho fair.G3o “ ore flay'* rersion last Friday. It was a trick not many saw through at tho time. Some have tumbled since but will not pub- SicalSy admit it. There is a verse' that applies to the situation that reads something like this: “The hand is the hand of Esau," said he, “but the voice is the voice o f Jacob,” Isaac, though blind and dying, saw through the trick. The legislative interpretation and application now reads in this manner: “ The hand is the hand o f Taft, but the voice is the voice of Hynieka.” Propaganda and political tear bombs enveloped the mem­ bers, who numbed, faint and blinded, were reduced to a degree o f in­ sensibility by a “ high-hat and silk stocking** politician from the Hynieka gang in Cincinnati. As a result strong men were weakened and made to vote fo r a measure that permits the circulation o f a pe­ tition to increase tax rates, once the voters have refused a bond is­ sue at tho ballot box. Cries and pity were sent out to aid certain tax districts in the state. The issue was not these counties. The law was passed fo r no other purpose than to aid Hamilton county, whose general fund is overdrawn $000,000.' Cincinnati has refused to vote more money. The voters turn down bond issues, A new way must be provided and the petition method is put on the law books so that pol­ iticians in Greene and other counties can shoot up tax rates regard­ less o f what the electors have to say, The legislature met fo r banquet at the Noil House last Thursday night. There was mumbling and gruinbling among the members over the bill Written by Taft o f Cincinnati, that was passed the next day. Scores of members went to Columbus against the petition idea but something happened between the hours o f the banquet, and the open­ ing session -the next morning. The members in many numbers were in a bad frame o f mind. But during the night something happened. What happened ? That’s the'question. What changed these members that made them speechless the following day? The public has heard much about the situation in Lima apd Al­ len .county. The county is hopeless' in debt. It was no fault o f the Taxpayers, .We are told that the commissioners in that county built miles o f fine roads with bond issues and did not tax one cent on the abuting land owners. That’s what you call good electionering. The far­ mer did not realize there was to be a pay day just the same. State inspectors condemned school buildings and up wept new ones with bond issues. More money was needed for a growing city like Lima and bond issues were sold. The limit was soon reached,. It came to the point where bonds next had to be voted upon. The public rebelled. ’ And the taxpayers rebelled several times. No money fo r anything. Nearly all the tax money was going for interest and sinking fund to meet the debts. Schools closed next, A public fund was asked o f the patrons to keep the schools open. .Not enough could be secured. The public was done and quit. The crafty Taft knowing that his city was “ busted"'saw his opportunity. It would not do to ask for such a law in Hamilton county: The Cincinnati electors had rejected the Hynieka Taft gang candidates and began te defeat bond issues. This is what a gang politician terms as “ communism", a dangerous power to have in the hands o f the public. Then Taft set his plans for the law that he forced through the legislature last Friday whereby politicians can use the petition method to increase tax rates. One or two other small counties were on the sympathy list. We just learned a few days ago. where in ope of these counties'a member o f the county commissioners had his son on the county pay roll fo r $5 a day, and the boy just in his teens. The boy drives the county automobile fo r the commission­ ers. And a legislature allows itself to be prayed upon and members vote fo r d law that makes it easy to apply rotten gang methods in every tax district in Ohio. For example. Three o f the four wards in Xenia can defeat a bond issue! Imagine what the result would be with an application of the Baxter law and petitions afloat in the Fourth ■ w a r d . , ■.■■" . . This week we received a propaganda letter from a political writer in Columbus, defending the socalled petition law just passed and also the Vory’s law. The writer states that he has interviewed many mem­ bers o f the'legislature and finds that poor business methods have been employed by village, township and school board officals, and that the Vory's law was necessary. Our. reply we think has settled that point. No other proof is necessary than to cite the fact that it is not the rural districts that are broke, but the counties with large cities. Nine out o f ten o f the villages and other districts have sufficient funds and would not neecj as much if the state inspectors would keep their places. The cost of the school system in Qhio is no fault o f the public but the legislature that has given inspectors a free hand. The Colunibua writer probably thinks farmers have been paid an. unusual wage for hauling stone or gravel for roads. Or charged city prices for fixing a ditch or bridge. Hence the necessity o f the Vory’s law, ac­ cording t o this writer. The legislature has been much concerned about the public and the way counties, cities, villages, townships and school districts have bean spending money. Senator Vorys, who carried the bill with h(s name admits he did not yrite it. The beat explanation we can give of the bill is that officials must vote twice now to spend a dollar, where formerly once was sufficient. The rest is fed tape bookkeeping fo r the I BMH N I S L E Y In the Arcade i ANNOUNCES T V 7 0 0 0 P a ir s Of Our Regular Shoes R e d u c e d 2000 Pairs Hosiery The reputation for Honest Merchandise for 40 year* is behind this sale. The re­ ductions are large. AH the Shoes are our own stocks'. Not a pair bought for asale. , T h u r s d s iy ^ «J3u i * mum dorks. The Senator desires vatuo received in the rural districts, yet advocates and votes to open tho state purse with |4,000,000 to erect a new office building for the hundred state hoards, commissions, bu­ reaus that provide several thousand jobs for politicians, The state now owns a site yet Senator Vory’s would spend two million dollar* to purchase another site directly across, the s tm t , erect a building thereon, the first six stories on the northsida that would have no day­ light. How considerate opr legislature is! No' safe guard about the four million fund, only the members o f the legislature, the politicians and the real estate agents, which should ba guarantee enough. Tho question with roost people is whether four million is going tc be enough. Bui haw can there be more when State Auditor Tracy and State Treasurer Day publieally warn that the state will be broke by July 1st. What a smoke screen the legislature now puts out about wreckless spending in tho counties? 5 If we were to personally argue the economic side o f tho legisla­ tive question and find a way to stop waste about the first question to be asked would be; ‘.‘Have you as a member o f the legislature ever considered checking the possibility o f raising not more but less money by taxation?" The less raised would stop Bpending. Another would be: “ Have you ever considered abolishing any o f the expensive boards and bureaus with hundreds o f politicians on the pay roll ? ” “ Have you as a member o f the legislature a moral right to talk and preach economics in the smaller districts and then waste $3,000,000 for a Site ' fo r a new state house building?” Or authorize the expenditure on the order o f the legislature o f $75,000 for the fake Bell telephone rate' investigation that is now under way and which was urged by the!. . lobby element?” “ Did you as a member o f this legislature suggest a; bill that would curtail the power o f the state 'tax commission, that- increased tax valuations' on farms and homes in Seneca county af­ ter local appraisers had completed their work?” I f a member o f the legislature had acted directly or indirectly on matters covered by such questions as above, there might be some justification about the economy stand members would have you believe they took when the Baxter bill waa passed last Friday, ’ ■ The late James Faulkner, noted political writer once said that the hardest thing a member of the legislature lmd to overcome, when once elected and after becoming acquainted with the third house, or the lobby, was that “ I am the State” . I And the longer the members of the legislature think o f tho “ one day” session the more they will becoifie convinced that f‘ The hand is the hand o f Taft, but the voice is the voice of Hynieka.” Can the Governor, whom the Legislature considers blind and dying, not see through this trick as did Isaac of old? | ft BRYSON WON OVER KLAN-MARSHALL POLITICS President W. B . Bryson was re-elected president o f the Greene County Farm, Bureau last Saturday, but not until after a close con­ test that nearly brought defeat for him. An under cover campaign had been secretly made to defeat him with a coalition o f the Klari and Boss Marshall’s forces, Scenting a probable, division among the farmers over the election of a president the united forces went into the contest with every expectation o f winning. When the result was announced Mr. Bryson had won by only two votes. Had the opposing forces held their members on the floor rather than permitting them to gather about the building Mr. Bryson would have been defeated. Politically speaking Boss Marshall, has been an opponent o f Mr. Bryson for some years. He has centered forces at each opportunity. The Kian is still fighting the county school board election, having lost out in its fight against Mr. Bryson when he wasj re-eleoted last November. -- ’ ■ '' •f - The Klan-Marshall line-up backed Horace Ankeney fo r president against Mr, Bryson. Mr. Ankeney is regarded as. anti-Klan and his name was used fo r no other purpose than an attempt to defeat Mr. Bryson. How Nation’s Milk Is Used FLUID MILK WASTED CONDENSED En. EVAPORATED MILK ICE CREAM 25 E. Main Street Springfield, Ohio. mg A . , Diamond Jubilee Fur Sale! I T ’S a far cry since 1851 when P. E. Brancroft opened his doors and this store started. Few indeed are living who can recall the day. Seventy five years — four genera­ tions — o f satisfactory business relations with our Spring- field friends and neighbors! W e ’re pardonably,proud o f our record and think the most fitting celebration is a fur sale that will make more history. The traditional fair dealing o f the founder o f this hat and fur business never has been and never shall be violated. You can come to this sale knowing that everj^ reduction and every representation is exactly as adver­ tised. ■ Full length genuine Alaska seal coats now $495; extra quality Hudson seal coats $274.50; Bay seal coats $74.50; bronze paw caracul coats, fox trimmed $74.50; natural gray caracul, wolf trimmed $149.50; antel­ ope coats $198.50; black korova coats $198.50 raccoon-opossum coats $129.50; Bay seal coats skunk trimmed $119.50; etc, etc. Everything, in furs radically reduced including chockers, stoles and scarfs. ' I ' ' Eacli year our circle o f patronage widens -— at least one dollar out of-every four comes to us from out o f town. More and more, people benefit by our seventy-five years’ experience and the broad Ban­ croft guarantee o f satisfaction in wear. You can come here with confidence as our knowledge o f what we are selling makes you sure or just what you are buying. •UiC VAU.IVCKCAMCJIVMSTITUTC ^pWENTV cent* out of every food dollar 1* spent for dairy prodnet*. Milk or milk products are used tn almost every dish Included In the daily meal, according to the Blue Valley Creamery Institute. Latest statistic* prepared by the bureau of dairying of the Department o f Agriculture show that 45.5 per cent of the American milk production, or almost one hundred billion pounds, is used directly In the form of milk. It Is estimated that every man, woman and child consumes.on an average of 50 gallons of milk each year. This Is an increase of eight gallon* over the 1017 per capita consumption figures. The nation I* eating more butter as well as drinking more milk. Per cap­ ita consumption o f butter averages around 16.5 pounds, while In 1018 the aver­ age was but 14.6 pounds. Mote than one-fourth of the yearly milk supply Is made into butter, 28.6 per cent o f this Is turned out as a commercial product Americans are not big cheeSe eaters, The average consumption Is less than 8.7 pounds per capita. Only 8,7 per cent o f the annual milk production is made in cheese. Condensed milk consumption has more than doubled since 1020 when the average consumption was six pounds per capita. Today th* average consumption Is 12.00 per capita. 1 - * Condensed milk plant* last year absorbed 8.5 per cent of the milk pro­ duced. Ice cream take* about the'same amount. Calves drink around 4.2 per cent. Less than 2 per cent o f the year’s milk attpply I* used for such miscellaneous products as powdered milk and cream, malted and canned milk sad milk chocolate, It It estimated that around 8 per cent Is watted or lost The Exchange Bank » . 1 i Wants Your Banking, Business THEY PAY ONSAVINGS **70 ACCOUNTS Just Arrived New Printed Crepes for The New Season After viewing the display you will want to begin your Spring Sewing at once, PRINTS and still more Prints as winter fades into spring. A magnificent exhibition of new spring printed silks await your ir^pection here. Gorgeous in colorings—beautiful in design, fascinating new shadings, the exact likeness of which has not as yet been seen. The low price should inspire every women with the desire for a hew dress, $2.00 A Yard XEN IA , OHIO \ x x GET OURPRICiS ON PR NTING X X