The Cedarville Herald, Volume 54, Numbers 1-26

v x a c a p a m i c t u i j . F r id a y , h o r u a iy «, i m > 1 THE CEDARVILLE HERALD KA ILH BU LL — ED ITOR AND PUBLISHER I& tu rada tth s Fort Office, C ftdtrville, Ohio, October 81,1887, asaucxmd class matter. FR ID AY , FEBRUARY 6, 1931 upsst the dsUssts need!** U ow eh* j The ettwwtape* i f the id ig i re. ssrvstoriss sad laboratories,. ] mein* pcsstfsafer fife « * • * IN * it wet Displays of aurorae, o r northern j last asmseter, Meter floeaasr attfdstots lights, have lone been known t* be j have flvsrpM eel fiM tete# nsrfctu* more beautiful end more numerout at |dent* have entered, times of sun spot maxima, I t was j Do not forgot that the campaign is not, however^ until well after the 1on yet to complete the Maintenance start o f the present tolar cycle, which ] and Expansion Fuad for this year. WELL WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS? A bill passed one of the branches o f the legislature the other day calling for building o f cement sidewalks along the National pike in Belmont county between two country villages that are some distance apart, It was argued that such side­ walks were necessary for school children*. The State Highway Department is to do the work and the cost to be paid from the state treasury, What an opening this makes and what a pre­ cedent is established. It is an invitation for other raids on state funds for most any other purpose that might be imagined. I f the bill should pass the other branch of the legislature it is very likely Governor White w ill be forced to exercise his veto power. OHIO WHEAT ACREAGE INCREASED While Chairman Legge o f the Federal Farm Board has con- sistantly urged farmers to reduceytheir wheat acreage it ap­ pears that Ohio farmers have increased their wheat seeding by one per cent over Hast year. This is not much but with favorable weather conditions the state may have a larger crop this sum­ mer than last. While the Ohio wheat crop can have little affect on the price of wheat as a whole it must go on the market or be fed to live stock. From the experience of farmers this year a fair lirice has been gained by feeding wheat to hogs. The average Ohio farmer must raise some wheat or a crop of like nature to permit the usual rotation o f crops. So far there has been no substitute for wheat and each farmer is al -most compelled to-seed-some land in- wheai either fo r the cash value or feeding purposes. With taxes to be met there must be some crop for land cannot be idle even for a year. In forjrter years farmers looked to the wheat crop for midsummer cash but even a fair profit cannot be obtained now at present prices. The solution at present seems to be for each farmer to produce at least enough wheat to meet cost of seeding and the yield to be used for feeding. ■ ■-i ' WHERE SHOULD GOVERNMENT COSTS BE CUT? The selfish spirit of people as a whole and •organizations representing certain groups was never more pronounced than today. From every angle there comes a demand for a reduction o f this and that, that governmental costs can be reduced. I f all interests are not to suffer some reducation in requirements and ^demands for which the state or its political subdivisions must pay for, then a few lines will continue to benefit as at present and others must stand their share of the cost. A striking example came to us a few days ago when we saw a long list of appointments in the agricultural department, all o f which carried what might be termed enormous salaries, especially when compared with the farmer’s income today.. Many farm leaders complain of over production under the mo­ dern system of farm operation but can the farmer reasonably expect relief and have the state spend great sums in expanding this work? I f the manufacturer’s market is overstocked the factory is closed down until there is a demand for his product. We believe the farm interests must eventually give in and ac­ cept a reduction in the cost of operating the department of agriculture,in both the state and nation. In the past such work was a necessity but the present day. cost.is only a part of the burden that is being keenly felt by both urban and rural tax­ payer. DEMANDS FOR SCHOOL MONEY CONTINUE We notice several days ago where Director Clifton of the Department of Education has asked the State Board o f Contror for $800,000 o f state funds to pay school teachers in>counties that are out of funds due to the drouth and inability of the •property owners to pay their taxes promptly. Of course the teachers, should have their monthly salaries but the question naturally arises as to where the state is to get the money to meet expenses in counties financially embarrassed. - I f we read the papers right such counties as Hamilton Montgomery. Franklin, and many smaller, each have exceed­ ingly large delinquent lists. For instance in Montgomery coun­ ty it took fourteen pages of the city papers to list the delinquen taxpayers. a As our school system is responsiblPfor expenditure of more than fifty per cent of our tax money, we believe the State De­ partment of Education should remove certain requirements of Boards of Education during the present-economic depression that cost of school operation might be reduced. A little more time spent by state authorities out in the state might give a different picture to^those in ^authority in Columbus^.We have made a suggestion to a department .of the State Tax Commission that boards of education be given the option of using their own judgmenfruirpresenirrather than be forced-to-continue~meeting certain proscribed standards. Our suggestion was well receive?: but had never been brought to thd attention of the department FRAGMENTSFROMAN ASTRONOMER'SWORKSHOP By Dr. Harlan True Stetson*, Director of Perkins Observatory, Ohio Wesleyan University, Author of "Man and the Stars." V -------— _ STRANGE AS IT SEEMS T HE other day I received from one of my business friends a chart of business trends of the last half century, The zigzag curve dodging upond down showed at a glance the years of prosperity and of depression, depicting with some regularity the so-called recurrence o f business cycles. This type o f literature, which is quite foreign to the usual reading matter in an astronomical workshop, brought pleasant diversion from the investiga­ tion of the curves o f Sun spots, radio reception, and sdlar activity which forms one of the major fields o f oper­ ation at the Perkins Observatory. Imagination unbridled is a serious menace to science but properly con­ strained often opens many a gate to new fields of science. It took no great flight of imagination* however, to com* pare the curves o f business with the standardized curve of solar activity fnr Min f« « f tifll<> no* f” *r arwi nn*a strange as it seems, that the last five major periods of solar activity have been followed by a period o f marked business depression. Or, to approach the same problem from the busniess angle, the eye could not kelp but note that of the last five major business de­ pressions. font out o f five followed In the wako o f a period o f maximum sun spots. 8o, in tho language o f adver­ tising psychology evmr front the aeon* omic standpoint "four out of five have it.” It is also noticeable from a com' pariaon o f th* t that the aver­ age Interval of sun spot maximum to the depth of the succeeding flnancia depression was two and one half years From a careful analysis o f solar data at the Perkins Observatory the mean date for the maximum solar activity o f the last sun spot cycle has been fixed as about July 1,1928. Applying the two and a half year rule ( i f one may speak o f so speculative a ven ture as a"rule” ) this would appear to make the bottom o f the valley of the present depression fall about Jan nary 1, 1981, For a scientist to delve into the un certainties of economics may- be as dangerous a practice as to mix astronomy with theology. One may well refrain from the uncertainties of further speculation, which might lead to a complete misunderstanding the methods o f science, in order to examine some of the more secure facts upon which science finds a cor relation between the affairs of the earth and things cosmic For more than a century it has been noted that magnetic changes U the earth have accompanied the changing solar cycle, but it was not until 1908, when Dr. Hale o f Mount Wilson ob­ servatory definitely demonstrated with the spectroscope that sun spots wire solar dynamos, that any reason the apparent connection between__ spots and the earth could be realized, , Now that w# definitely know that these sun spots are gigantic magnetic j whirls in the solar atmosphere we understand hoW the sweeping o f tl storms across the solar surface began in 1928, that any suitable math' od was available fo r studying the daily changes in the electricity o f the earth's upper atmosphere with the changes in solar activity. A ll this has come about as a result o f the radio. Daily observations at the Perkins Ob­ servatory, and elsewhere, give auto­ matic records o f the intensities of radio signals received from distant stations, and the comparison o f these records with the photographs made o f i;he sun each day shows a remarkable correlation between radio reception and sun spots. Observations by Dr. Pettit, of the Mount Wilson Observatory, and by Dr, Abbot, o f the Smithsonian Insti­ tution, show also a marked dependence of the character o f the solar radiation with the coming and going of the spots on the sun, Can it be that this changing character o f solor radiation over the recurrent cycles has more to do with affairs on the earth than per­ haps astronomers and economists o f the present _day dream? The success of agriculture must inevitably depend upon the sun’s radiation.. Is it possi­ ble that cycles in the solar activity may. be reflected in the_crop_s_of Jthe nation ? I f so, it may not be so purely speculative to suppose that by and large a cycle’ o f prosperity and de­ pression may follow even obscurely the fluctuations in the fundamental ^cosmic, causes. .1understand, however, that certain economists would, now minimize the factor o f agriculture on the prosperity o f the world as a whole. Perhaps the most interesting gen­ uine scientific research to exhibit the crorelation of solar activity with the growth o f vegetation* is tor be found in the work of Professor Douglas, of the University of Arizona, who has traced over thousands of years the growth of primeval forests with the changing solar cycle. How has he done this ? By labori­ ously counting thousands of tree rings in fallen giants o f the forest. Each ring in a tree, represents a year's growth. The different intervals of spacing differentiate *unmistakably years o f rapid growth from those of sluggish development. So successful­ ly has Professor Douglas developed his science of ecology that, given section o f an unknown tree, he can tell you almost at once not only its age but the* very years o f the world’s history through which it lived. As an astronomical contribution, Professor Douglas has given the scientific world a means o f decipher­ ing the activity o f the sun hidden in the trunks o f trees from the Sequoias o f California to the preserved timbers in the ruins o f the civilization of ancient Egypt. I f the solar cycle is so indelibly written in the vegetation o f the world through long periods o f time, who s^all say that we may not yet find even more intimate relationships be­ tween the constantly changing activ­ ity of the sun. and the world* of affairs? Six thousand dollars remain to be raised. We shall be thankful for con­ tributions in large and small sums at any time between this and Hay 16, COLLEGE NOTES The second semester o f Cedarville College opened Tuesday, February 3 Dr. Charles P. Proudfit, D. D., pastor of the First* United Presbyterian address on the subject o f the "Dis­ placement of Life.” It was one o f the most interesting and acT An Scouts To Observe Anniversary Week The Boy 8couts have arranged for observance of "Anniversary Week” from February 8 to 12 with the fo l­ lowing program: Feb. 8—7:30 p. m., M. E. church. Speaker, Rev. W. H, Tilford, Presby­ terian church, Xenia. His subject will he: "Jesus Christ—Eagle Scout.” Feb," 10—Presbyterian church, 7:30 m., Troop meeting. Parent’s night, Feb. 12-r-College campus, 7:00 p. m. Flag Raising. Feb. 13—High School Auditorium, 8:00 p. m., Roy Scout Program. Feb. 14—9:00 a. m., Headquarters, Dad and Scout Hike. COMMUNITY BENEFIT DANCE The I. O. O. F. lodge will sponsor a benefit dance in Nagley’a Hall, Wed­ nesday,. February 11, fo r the henefit of the needy, the funds tti tyb' dis bursed under direction Of either local officials or public committee. 'Neer’s orchestra has been secured.'and the admission w ill be 26c and 50c. WANTED TO BUY. Reliable Draft Horse, not too old'. Phone 4 on 59, Jamestown. by Arthur Brisbane 01&-Age Pensions Why Not Hunt Gold? Bad News Cornea Out - Future o f Television Calvin Coolidge has written his opinion that old-age pensions are not advisable, Says he: "What a self- respecting people really needs is not a system o f old-age pensions but a population made sufficiently skilled by education and *■sufficiently con­ trolled and well disposed by the help sf religion, so that old-age pensions would be a superfluity* Unless real reform comes from within, the prob­ lem will never be solved.” Education may , some day provide fo r old age* Meanwhile what "self- respecting old people” want is some­ thing to eat, and a place to sleep out­ side o f the poor house. They have plenty o f religion, ,but can’t eat is, unfortunately. A fter you have taken all the work out o f an old horse, you .should either knock him on the head or feed him, A fter it has taken all the work out of old men and women, their country can’t knock them on* the head and, therefore, having had their work, ought to feed them. instructive dresses ever given in the college, instrumental duet waa rendered by Misses Kimble and McMillan. A voca duet was given by Misses Waddle and Skinnell; Miss Elias was their accom panlst Doctors Harriman and Jamie son and Reverend Hutchison were present and took part in the services, Recitations began the next day and the semester is starting off nicely, The Day of Prayer for Colleges was observed Friday at ten o'clock in the morning in the Presbyterian church Reverend Herbert Hezlep, D, D.. pastqr of Knox Presbyterian church, Hyde Park, Cincinnati, was the preacher. There will be more about the Day of Prayer in next week's notes. The Home Coming Banquet is to­ morrow evening, Saturday, February 7, at 5:30. It will he a chicken dinner and will be served by the Women’s Advisory Board of the college. Th' plates are only fifty cents each. Any one who desires to come will be wel­ come. Front all appearances it looks as if 150 at least will be present. The speaker of the banuet will be Pro­ fessor Brees, head* o f the Department o f Public Speaking o f Wittenberg College. He is one of the; best speak­ ers in southern Ohio, Following the banquet the Home Coming game between Antioch and Cedarville colleges will be played, A contribution will be taken from any gnat tahla-who dnnira to aa The .world needs more gold, and may get it. France and* (Jncle Sam now control the world’s supply, France with the highest per capita gold re serve. Hard times have sent pros -pectoraJback. toh ills-and mountains, their "good times easy jobs” in cities having vanished. You see more and TOore-of-them-traveling-the-western desert country, each, in his years of prospecting, probably passing great fortunes a dozen rimes. To prospect is one thing, to find is another. and cheeks Malaria in three days. bronze to kill each other more easily Hum with flints, and the iron age came a supply better killing tools. Now >r©n*e and iron are useful apart from killing. Television is used to dash stock quotations, a whole row o f; * them, to any earthly distance in a j Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia fa fraction of a second, making the stock ] 39 minutes, checks a Cold the first day, ticker as old-fashioned as the stage coach. Young Mr, Vincent Astor, catching turtles on the Galapagos islands, could have on his yacht an instrument that would show him, be­ fore any Wall street man could know it, that he made a mistake buying sugar stocks, Later television will be useful apart from stock speculation, Some Ein­ stein, Moses, Maimonides or Spinoza o f the future may be seen ar.d heard jy the whole world standing on Mount Ararat, sending out a message of vital importance that nobody but him­ self will understand. it ■ Gandhi is freed by Britain after nine months in a comfortable jail, and is said to find freedom oppressive. LeOdirig 320,000,000 Asiatics is not an easy task, when 60,000,000 of them 'h«i*t on killing the others,, and there is no particular place to which they can btrled. Drive Britain out of In­ dia and millions would d ie o ff or be killed off every year, and Gandhi, in­ telligent and well' meaning, knows it. LOC Two and Mr withkpn H Mrs. j day aft* search < Mrs. > Of all scientific discoveries made accidentally, jm e o f the strangest comes from Joliet, 111. Doctor Weaver ordered a transfusion o f “ parent’s” Blood, in the case o f a fifteen-year-old girl suffering from infantile paralysis. Another doctor misunderstood him to say “ parrot’s” blood, and accord­ ingly made a transfusion o f blood from the heart o f a living parrot. Doctors say the child is getting well. A thousand doctors will exclair. "bosh.” PUBLIC SUE! Having rented the farm, I will offer at public auction, etc., known at the Anderson Home Farm, 6 miles east o f Xenia, 4 miles west o f Jamestown, 4 miles south of Cedarville, on the Jamestown-Xenia Pike, State Route 11. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1931 Beginning at 11 A . M. 25— HEAD PUREBRED SHORTHORN CATTLE—25 3— JERSEY MILK COWS—3 Two.9-year old Shorthorn Cows with Calf’ by side; ll-y e a r old Shorthorn Cow wiht calf by side;’two 5-year old Shorthorn Cows with calf by side; 8-year old Shorthorn Cow with calf by side; 3-year old Shorthorn Cow with calf by side; 4 yearling Shorthorn heifers, wgt. aboubh$Q0 lbs. each; 4 yearling Shorthorn Bulls, wgt, about 500 lbs. each; 2-y.rar old Red Shorthorn Cow, will calve in March; 8-year old Chorthorn Cow, wifi calve in April; Shorthorn Herd Bull 4 years old; Jersey Cow with calf by side, giving good flow o f milk; Jersey and Shorthorn Cow will calve "in March; 'Jersey CoW will halve ifr April. Tuesday this we* 555 FOR seed coi Pitstick. rn Miss } of from si te, suffering silitis. Dallas S. U., h: NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT Estate of H. II. Stormont, Deceased. E. L. Stormont has bepn appointed and qualified as Administrator of the ’ state of H. H. Stormont, late of Greene County, Ohio, deceased. Dated this 22nd day o f January, 1931. S. C. WRIGHT, Probate Judge of said County. M .iiiiiiiiaMm iiM iiim M im iiim iiiiiiiiiiiiM itmm iiiim iiiiiiiiiif, BABY CHICKS Order early from our new reduced price lis t All the above are T . B. tested. registered. All Shorthorn's and Herd Bull are I You will get our usual high | |grade chicks from Blood | |tested matings. § | CUSTOM HATCHING f f THE NORTHUP | ] HATCHERY J i 1 . Yellow Springs, Ohio § rilllMIfllllllHIimillMIIMIIIHIMIMIIIIItllMIMHIMlimilMlltllHW; * 5—HEAD OF HORSES AND MULES— 5 Bay Mare, 10 years old, wgt. 1200; 2 Bay Mares, 12 and 13 years old, wgt. about-1500 each; Black Mare, 12 years old, wgt, 1400; Grey Mare, 9 years old, wgt. 1300. Span of Mules. A ll above ,are depend­ able workers. 39— HEAD OF HOGS— 39 6 head o f BrooW Sows, 2 Hampshire, 3 Red and 1 Spotted Poland China. 32 Head of Fall Shoats, wgt. approximately 35 lbs. each, 1 Duroc Male Hog, 3 years old. 1 25— HEAD OF SHEEP 24 Head o f Shropshire Ewes. Une Shropshire Buck. FEED 1,000 bushels of Corn in Crib. FARM IMPLEMENTS Brown Wagon with box bed; Low Iron .Wheel Wagon, flat top bed; McCormick Wheat Binder, 8-ft. cut; McCormick Mower; Dunham Cultipacker, used only one season; McCormick-Deering Manure Spread­ er; lised two seasons; McCormick-Deering Double Disc; 12-7 Superior Wheat Drill; Moline Tractor with plows and cultivator; 4-roll Appleton Corn Husker; 2-row Corn Plow; Single Row Com Plow; Cassidy Gang' Plow; John Deere Sulky Plow; Walking Plow; John Deere Com Planter with check wire; 2 Spike Tooth Harrows, Shovels, Forks and other miscellaneous farm tools too numerous to mention. , HOUSEHOLD GOODS And Furniture including Antiques; Walnut Bedroom Suite, Wal­ nut Book Case; 3-Bumer Perfection Oil Cook Stove; Creajm Separator. HARNESS *' “ * Seven side 3 o f work harness, halters, etc. WM. W. ANDERSON TERMS—CASH. ^ LUNCH RIGjHTS RESERVED Auctioneers: Weikert, 1505'E. High S i, ’Springfield,'’6, Gordon, Ce- darville. Ohio, Phone No. 1. Hugh Trumbull, Clerk, 0 *ld th ild it. 53. .Id -d; nd ■ il. re rs ey id- nd 1 ■ J M tbft-hwi main for the game and it is hoped that it will be liberal, Any who do hot come to the banquet hut who desire to come to the game will pay the ad­ mission price to the game of fifty cents. The college had the pleasure bf a visit from Doctor Arthur Klein, head of the Department of School Admin­ istration of Ohio State University. Doctor Klein visited the cotfege Thursday, ‘ 1 The Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. held the opening meetings of the semester! on Thursday, These men often spend a lifetime Without reward. More money has been put into gold mines and gold hunting than has ever been taken out. But even the oldest prospector never looks discouraged. Hope is back of the sun­ burned face and gray beard, and for­ tune is always just ahead* You needn’t feel sorry for him. Trying Is the only thing in life worth while—possession is nothing, And he is trying, and full of hope. A young gentleman spending his dead father’s money in a fashion­ able gambling house might well envy the old prospector seeking a "grub­ stake” for just one more trip, Wise men that invest in American values, foolish people that gamble in those values, will probably be deceived as to real conditions during tho next few months. The had news of 1930 will come out now, in the corporation reports show­ ing what happened, profits down, gloomy change in earnings. And this will frighten those that do not realize conditions. Dozens of these sad statements will come Out, and the foolish will say: "Everything is going to the dogs, I shall sell what I have,” The fact is that things are OOMlfig"MCg;J‘naVl'ng' "gone to the dogs” last year, If you are wise you will hold what you have, The healthy mart has his little ill­ nesses, Uncle Sam has just had his. The situation Is described by Otto H. Kahn, accurately, thus: "In a few years We shall look hack and find it hard to believe that the best American properties once soldat today’s ridicu­ lous prices,” Television, which means "seeing, afar,” has its m l beginning, and In the usual way. Men made tools o f , ;op am id- ior :on mg jrn md /al­ ar. ED Ce- A sriti: trin r i