The Cedarville Herald, Volume 54, Numbers 1-26

TICS C*DA*VILL* HX1ALD, FEIDAY, HAJtCX *T, 1H1 THE CEDARVILLE HERALD] ^ARLB BULL EDITOR AND PUBL1 Batorod a t the Post Office, Cedarville, Ohio, October SI, 18S7, M tecond class matter. 5 ' FRIDAY, MARCH 2 7 ,1 93 1 OFFICIALS SHOULD SUPPORT BILL The Ohio House o f Representatives has passed the Secrest- Bostwick bill which would return a greater amount o f the gaso­ line tax money to counties, townships and municipalities, It also makes some change in the manner in which this money can be used f o r Street purposes that are worthy o f support. R e ­ gardless o f the fact there was a strong lobby o f road material and contractor interests against this measure there was only abodt h a lf a dozen votes against it. The h ill nq,w goes to the Senate where it should be passed. It has come to our attention that officials all over Ohio should strongly back this measure, W e suggest that the county com­ missioners, Xenia City Commission, councils in the various muni­ cipalities, all township trustees in the county send letters to Senator M ilton J. Scott, care o f the State House, urging his support o f this bill, It has been shown time, and again that money collected from motorists has not always been spent wisely by the State H ighway Department. Once it goes to Columbus little o f it gets back fo r road or street improvement where is it needed. The high priced road contractors and material peop le ob ject to. doing business with so many different officials. Citizens in general should also write the Senator to vote f o r this bill. Rep ­ resentative R, D. Williamson voted fo r it in the House. Take this action at once. A rthur Brlabane 1,659,999 Mites a Miawte John D*« $19,999,<99 If He Returned Tee Many KUHugs Maud S. trotted a mile in a little qver two minutes, and William H» Vanderbilt, who drove, was proud. An Englishman recently drove his automobile at the rate o f 245 miles an aour, and flying machines have gone above 300 miles an hour. All that is amazing. But think of Mount Wilson astronomers, “ timing" stars that go 1,650,000 miles in a min­ ute, stars distant from Us. 120,000,000 light years, which means the distance that light could travel in 120,000,000 years, going 186,000 miles a second. Those swiftly moving stars and nebulae are far bigger thah our sun, which is a"million times bigger than our earth. Whoever believes that a universe o f that size and speed has been man­ aged by chance, without direction, for thousands of millions o f years, could believe anything. ' > INCREASE IN POSTAL RATES NECESSARY , ~ ^ a ■. • - • v-- • - ■- .«■ ; Those who fo llow newspaper reports from Washington are being constantly reminded that sooner or later we must have an increase on., first class postage to meet the, ever increasing de­ ficit o f the postal department. O f course an increase in the cost o f any kind o f service to the public under present economic conditions will not be well received. But why do we not hear something from our public leaders about reductions*? So fa r as we know it was never the intention that the postal department was to be operated as a private institution to show great profits. There should be a plan fo llow ed that would not bring about huge losses as government reports indi­ cate, calling fo r increased first class postage. It is possible that some o f our great ^corporation executives could put the postal department on a paying basis, but this would n o t be pleasing to congressman and senators who use the postal patronage as a political football. The greatest sport the average congressman engages in nowadays is promising a government building tos some cross roads town to house the postoffice. While this investment does not come from postal revenue it adds greatly to the overhead or rental feature that is reflected in the deficit. Congressman en joy the “ franking” privilege that cost hundreds o f thousands o f dollars. There is an enormous free government mail to citizens that is a waste o f postal funds. A s long as there is no opposition to govern­ ment departments and congressmen loading the department with free postal mail the public can expect to pay the bill. On e o f the matt absurd thing* in connection, with Myers X* Copper monument, the n *# million dollar state office buiidtar now going up on the river front In Columbus, had ho provision nude fo r e hosting plsnt. 'Die politicians pushing the new ven­ ture evidently expected the building .to be the summer quarters for port o f the 85,009 salaried list o f em­ ployees^ Taxpayers ’ are now told it will take $500,000 more to buy and install a heatlngplant. No provision was made fo r electric power, wfiich is a great refteedun. on the Cmcipnati politician architect that is t ° get Shout 1150,009 fo r drawing the/plans. State Auditor Mjrieey states that it may he ustes—ry to place a tax on real estate .to get this money as was dona to raise the six million. The new state office building will stand as a monumental piece o f graft for, the Cooper administration from securing the ground rite to the purchase o f marble and now the power plant. The feeble excuse given the public a few days ago as to hdw the power plant was omitted comes about as near con­ vincing the public as trying to drown aduck by Mpring water on its back. The big drop in the price o f wheat I naturally brings up the question that ; bread prices are not falling in pro-1 portion. There has been a decided drop in the price o f bread in recent months but low Wheat prices cannot | bring bread prices to a new low level. The wheat must he shipped to the big I granaries and stored. It is freighted | again to the milte^ who makes the (lour then ships the flour to the baker. There has' been, no reduction in freight ratesalong this line and ship­ ments o f wheat and trucking charges after the bread is baked makes a big | drop in bread priced impossible. - The wheat and bread , situation brings to mind the fact that probably not one in ten'farmers or even town live to see the second coming o f |people give consideration to the kind! ChriBt. It will not mean the world’s Jo f bread they buy* whether it is made end, but there will be no doubt about j out o f winter wheat flour or spring I John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is building in the heart o f Manhattan island, which is the heart o f Greater New York, a group o f magnificent buildings to, ho~use~a great radio theater, broad­ casting station, offices, shops, perhaps a new Metropolitan - Grand Opera house. • M r. 'Rockefeller’s agent's, have just ordered $10,000,000 worth o f steel for his buildings, 125,000 Stons o f it. “ Big Steel” will supply it. The Rockefeller enterprise, to be finished in three years, will employ 8,000 to 10,000 men at good wages. It’s a good thing to-have many dol­ lars, even a billion or more, assembled in one collection. That makes big things possible, just as a collection of many drops of water at Niagara creates power. Attention! 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Miss Christabel Pankhurst, daugh­ ter o f courageous British suffragette, Emmeline Pankhurst, says she will ROOT, HOG OR DIE > The Federal Farm Board that was created to give aid to the 'farm interests by stabilizing wheat prices now announces it w ill invest no more money to uphold the price o f wheat fo r the com ing crop. W ith it comes the statement the farmer alone has the remedy and that is cut the production by less acreage. T o arrive At this simple piece o f advice from a board that has had more than a year at fa t salaries, the experience has cost Uncle Sam many millions o f dollars on wheat purchased at $1.25 a bushel, plus a year’s storage, that is now worth about fifty cents a bushel, ' Once again the people o f the country have the result o f the government mixing in private business by trying to fix prices against the law o f supply and demand. Only in times o f war should any government attempt to control the products o f .the country or even set prices. The government has been used in times past by certain interests f o r a subsidy tha t should not have been, granted. The experience o f the farm board has been costly to the government and even more so to the wheat grow ing farm er who has seen conditions grow worse under the attempt to regulate prices. The farm board evidently has realized the plan is a failure and informs the farmer he must work out his own salvation by reducing wheat acreage, o r root, h og or die. The unfortunate trial o f price fixing is that it was nothing but an idle dream o f farm politicians that have not had the support o f the practical farm thinker. GOVERNMENT IN BUSINESS it. iue will not come “ in poverty, weakness and humility, but in all his najesty, with demonstrations o f di­ vine power more miraculous than any o f the miracles o f modem science.”. Pjrjjt, it occurs to you that anything more miraculous than modem science vould b? very miraculous. Second, you feel quite sure that if Christ came to earth now, preaching is he presetted 1,900 years ago, immi­ gration authorities ©f^ the United States would keep him* out and ad­ vise him to go te Russia. He told the rich man' to divide his wealth among those that .had nothing. / ‘ -------- Thefe is too much crime in this na­ tion. {Consider the case o f New York city, for instance. In , 1930,, police records show 498 murders, including 37 killed by. police discharging their duty. , Sixteen husbands' killed their wives; 6 wives killed their husbands—great self-control comparatively on the part o f wives. Of those killed, 310 were shot, 78 were stabbed, 58 were black­ jacked or otherwise hammered to death, 10 strangled, 2 burned to death, J thrown from windows, 13 killed by gas, 2 drowned, 1 killed by acid throw­ ing, 16 cases o f infanticide. wheat flour. Xu this section farmers ,1 are interested in winter wheat and should demand bread baked from win­ ter wheat. The farmer that buys1 bread baked io distent cities that is 1 always made out of spring wheat flour I should have no complaint about wheat! prices. Re is ifc the same class with 1 ;tye farmer that sells his cream and | juys a butter substitute that is made i from oils, mostly gathered from soap | plants and fertilizer reduction plants, it might be'/ interesting to some to I now that some oleo is made from, rendered oils taken from dead horses. | The local baker uses winter wheat I flour hdt must, meet competition o f 1 cheap spring wheat flour that has some substitutes in it and is always | baked the day previous to delivery in this section. “ I have never believed that our form o f government could satisfactorily solve economic problems by direct action— could successfully conduct business institutions. The government can and must cure abuses. 1 **What the government can do best is to encourage and assist in the creation and development o f institutions controlled by our citizens and evolved by themselves from their own needs and their experience and directed in a sense o f trusteeship o f public interest.” - • These st dements were made in an address delivered a few weeks ago by President Hoover and the great majority o f the American people, regardless o f their political faith, are in agreement with them. Our government was founded on the principle that the government ought not try to do fo r the people the things which they cart best do fo r themselves. W e pro­ spered and grew into a great nation by the application o f these principles. And yet, despite the fa c t that they are still held b y the great majority o f the American people, there is a con­ stant agitation on the part o f a well organized minority to make th e people wards o f the government, by constantly increasing the power and authority o f the federal government over busi­ ness, with, the evident aim o f building up a paternalistic govern­ ment in the United States. The paternalistic idea o f government is o f course, the “ fath­ er and son” idea, with the state serving as the provident father and the individual as the trusting child. I f this sort o f govern­ ment is effective at all it can only be effective where the £ government is an autocracy. Just as the parent is the dictator o f ,the fam ily policies, so long as the children are unable to take care o f themselves, so the, government must have dictatorial power, But in the United States we have had, since the founding o f the republic a representative government in which the people 1 fundamentally good, rule and have the final say. In this form o f government the f 'leasing to others, paternalistic idea has no part. The best government So fa r as the economic life o f the people is concerned is that which per­ mits the people to work out their own domestic problems in line with the idea quoted from President Hoover in the quota­ tion above*, . — Exchange. “ Criticism is easy, the art is diffi­ cult,” as the French say. Russia work­ ing on a five-year plan begins to real/- ize it. Bolshevism thought all the evil was with the employers, all high virtue with the Workers. But at present Russia, an employer on a gigantic scale, faces employers’ difficulties, and realizes that the genial proletarian is not always 100 per cent perfect or devoted. Russia haa been obliged to pay high­ er wages for better work, giving up the theory that all men are equal, which they are not. By the end o f the five-year pro­ gram, which may be a success, al­ though Wall Street has been “ hold­ ing its thumbs” hoping it wouldn’t, Russia’s rulers will know many em­ ployers’ problems. I f the government succeeds in mak­ ing an. industrial nation o f a collection o f 200,000 Russian villages and 100,- 000,000 Russian farmers, Russia will grow gigantically' rich. Then the lead erS Will change their views, as they do everywhere else, where money flows in and radicalism ebbs. The misfortune o f the individual, thanks to human nature, which is often brings a tTpcte. GharMb Brand, Congressman I loir the Seventy District, the one zeal outstanding politician that for years j has been, giving the farmers o f the 1 district “ farm< relief,” gravel roads, cheap insurance, free schools, along j with many other things too numerous to mention, faced a court o f justice I In Mechanicsborg several days ago | on a charge o f driving one o f his num -1 erous automobiles with a license tag that was -one year out o f date. I t j cost the Congressman a nice fine and court costs in addition to buying new license plate like most o f his consti­ tuents have been compelled to do if I they operate tbeir motor cars. About a year ago Brand, who evidently has a short mind about motor car license plates, faced a court and paid a fine. But these troubles to the Congress­ man are trivial in comparison to tb c ' situation in the proposal to rediatrict Ohio under the nqw census. Cham­ paign is in this the Seventh District. The last bill suggested places Cham­ paign’ in another district with Miami, Clark and numerous others. All these counties' are objecting to Champaign county. Leaders say put us where you will but not in a district with Champaign county. As matters now stand Greene county will not be bothered with Charley and his pet ideas,' his friend Mai Daugherty or D. Pemberton, the Columbus lobbyist. We see no reason why other counties jn the state ahould not have the use | o f Brand’s experience for a while. The people o f this county have had enough, j such as it has been, good and bad. NOTICE OF AFl^INTMENT 1 0 e i .H a aV f' B A B Y CH I C K S NEW LOW PRICES Tom Barron English Laghorns 9ct White Rocks, Barred Itejjj flL Radi, Hindi.White Wyaadedtee MlxW Custom Hsttdung Jte.Jtetr* « * . A Hatch Each w*9fc RALPH H. OSTER Oak Wood Poultry Faria * Yellow Springs, Ohio F^bert C. Fuller of Connecticut en dured the agony o f seeing his wife die o f cancer. He is dead now, and in the Anna Fuller fund, in her mem­ ory, leaves $1,500,000 to . fight the world’s most dangerous disease. The money will be spent to alleviate cancer suffering, to s|udy its cause and treatment and, wise provision, to educate the public as to prevention and treatment o f cancer. New York reports a new kind of ktilteg. It jra* desired by oriminal* tea, 'dyetmgvwm- * * sfta id tekw fte < W . »he is dead of double pneumonia, and the 'Anti- Chime society believes that the phmi- ihonia germs were administered to her as a method of silencing her. It was successful.- Estate o f R. C. Watt, deceased. William R. Watt has been appointed and qualified as Administrator o f the estate o f R. C. Watt, late o f ftreene County, Ohio, deceased. Dated this 17th day o f February, 1931. & C. WRIGHT, Probate Judge o f said County. 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