The Cedarville Herald, Volume 54, Numbers 27-52

CXDAAV1UX E tlA L D , FRIDAY, JUNE IS, *9 tt THE C E D A R V I L L E HERA LD X A SU B SU U . — — — EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Shttrftd at the Port Office* CedarviHe, Ohio, October SI, 1887, ■ft afteoadi clasamatter. FRIDAY, JUNE 12,1931, NEED OF MORE BOSTON TEA PARTIES In a recent issue the Saturday Evening Poet a real public service was rendered the public in a straight-from-the shoulder editorial criticizing the orgy of spending by members of legis­ latures and tax disbursing bodies. It pointed out that spending other people’s money is a favorite pastime of politicians and that when they have cleaned out everything and everybody, they do not stop but simply hunt forjaew ways to jack up old taxes or to find new things to tax^The people have stopped their wild spending but the politicians are still on a tax-disburs­ ing apree. “Ways and methods of spending and financing that would meet with the severest reprobation in the case of an individual, are considered perfectly sound procedure by the politicians, said the Post. “Reckless and prodigal private and public spending have exactly the same finish. The public-improvement-vote buying legislature is worse for the country than fire or pestilence.” It likens a majority of our public improvements to yachts, where the upkeep is worse than the first cost. Such improve­ ments bring a swarm of public servants who must be paid out of new taxes. It cites England, Germany and Russia where, paternalism and actual confiscation of property have caused tax loads and destruction of wealth which can and will wreck any govern­ ment. The editorial says in conclusion: “Our greatest need right now is fewer cocktail parties and more tea parties—of the Bos­ ton kind.” The-Editor of-the-Bost-must-have-been.in-Ohio lately^andhad some information as to how taxes are not only raised but how they are spent. For example the legislature is still pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into the new state office build­ ing that represents the greatest monument to graft that can be pictured in any state. The day the building was proposed to the present it has been graft in every sense of the word. The real estate graft in connection with the site out rivals the graft scan­ dal of Pennsylvania’s capitol building. Ohio materials were not good enough for the structure but Georgia marble interests made it attractive to Ohio politicians. As yet the building has no heating plant but a Cincinnati architect will draw more than a quarter of a million fee for his service. Yes, we are going to have more than a Boston tea party in Ohio, or the taxpayers will be strung up by the heels and shook down. HAM AND EGG CLUB The Ham-and-Egg club met Monday evening a t'the home of Max Dobbins, Before the meeting the boys played softball with a Xenia team, and were defeated by a score of 27-22. The club held its meeting in the house and Mr. Evans and the boys discussed the assignment. Mr. Evans gave the boys some important notes to pu t in their notebooks. He and the^boys then dis­ cussed the trip to Cincinnati Friday. The meeting was adjourned to be held Monday evening, but in case of rain a t the home of Milton and Gregg Tur­ ner. There will be a covered dish sup­ per. SO-WE SEW CLUB Thursday, May 28, the Blossom and So-We-Sew clubs visited the following gardens. Mrs. J. T. Jacobs, Mrs. W.' H. Haffner and Mr. C. C. Stevenson, where we saw many beautiful peren­ nials which were of much interest to the girls as they are planning peren­ nial borders for next year. Following the visiting of these gardens we went to the home of Mrs, C. C, Martin and after looking, a t the vegetable gar­ den and the shrubbery we held our business meeting. The SoWe-. Sew d u b girls gave a report on their pro­ gress on work they had done the past week. Two new members joined our club a t this time. h o r s e s & LOWS R everse P hone C harges t o m c t i. Ohio "E.G.Bueftaleb. Inc. CALL •REENE COUNTY FERTILIZER TeL 810, Xenia, O. ‘ ANNOUNCING June 15th will be our last hatch, of Baby Chicks for this season. This closes our 12th year in the hatchery business here, and we wish to thank all wo have helped to make our business a success, and we solicit your patronage for future years. OAK WOOD POULTRY FARM, Ralph H. Oster, Phone 224 YELLOW SPRINGS, 0 . WOOL J. E. HASTINGS and FRANK CRESWELL will pay Highest Market Prices at old stand Wool Received at all Times A llen 's E leva tor JU&j ,A* ln t i'il * • n i l ISiMti V \ In Columbus STOP AT THE Hotel Fort Hayes Maftwa m RoomsWith Bath at $2J6 * $3.00 Convenient to Store* and Theatre* MUNI OAtUUM Wf CwflfTCITOn K . B . B U N ^ n N K , OOLOMRUS, OHIO J l r t Q f a K by Arthur Brisbane Lindbergh’s Next Day A Mjddlo Age Danger Russia Balls Matches Religious Agitation Lindbergh remembers the question that Napoleon used to his marshals when they reported a victory: “What did you do the next day?’’ This is“the next day*' for Lindbergh, and he in­ tends to fly, with his wife, to Japan and China over the Pacific ocean. Be­ cause his wife Is going. Col. Lind­ bergh will fly over a northern nar­ row stretch of the Pacific, .no “mid­ dle of the ocean, and no matter what happens” this tipie. And he will fly a ship that can land on water. Mortimer L. Schiff, partner in Kuhn Loeb ft Co., generous in maqy philan­ thropies, and only last month elected national head of the Boy fleouts, died suddenly of heart disease. I t is anoth­ er warning to men o f middle age that strenuous exercise, added to stren­ uous mental work, is dangerous. Mr. Schiff, the day before his death, had played golf for several hours, working hard a t play, as a t everything else. Men past fifty should learn to take life calmly. _Countriesj>fJ3jnope, especially Eng- land, are wondering how they can a- void competition and dumping of cheap Russian goods, and, a t the same time, eagerly accept money that Rus­ sia spends in purchase of machinery and raw materials. This country a little more virtuous or, perhaps, more foolish than the others, has cut down Russian purchases in this country by more than half within the year. That may be high morality, but it is poor business. It will take lAore than words, or dis­ like of bolshevist theories, to conquer Russia’s industrial campaign backed by able producers and good salesmen. For instance, when United States sol­ diers look closely a t the little box of matches supplied by the government, they will see written in small type, “Made in Russia.” The army needed matches, and asked for bids. And the lowest bid, 25 per cent lower than an American bid, came from Russian matchmakers. Under the law, accord­ ing to Major Barry of the quarter­ master department, the army is com­ pelled to accept the lowest bid. The reason to believe that sudden violent outburst of anti-Catholie hos­ tility in Spain, Italy and elsewhere will be overcome by conciliatory meas­ ures. 1In Italy the Popa has forbidden all Catholic processions and demon­ strations of any kind outside of churches and forbidden the official Vatican organ, to publish hostile com- nent on the Fastist government. Mus­ solini, on his part, has forbidden tha Italian press to continue the publica­ tion of news articles and editorials calculated to foment anti-Catholie hatred. Good news of the' wheat crop in Texas—enormous crops. And that, as usual, was bad news for wheat growers. Under our intelligent system of agriculture and marketing, good crops in wheat or cotton moan trouble and poor prices for farmers. General William Mitchell, head of our air forces in the biff war has ju it made an inspection and trial of the autogyro, or “almost straighb-up-and -down flying machine.” That machine with a speed of 120 miles an hoar, rep­ resents a remarkable improvement in flying, says Gen. MitchelL He flew one of the machines, and is amazed a t its various good qualitias, ease in maneuvering and ability to rise al­ most vertically. Americans might envy the people of Iceland, with no army, no navy, no deficit, everybody a t work. Their im­ portant city, Reykjavik, has piped water from >a hot spring two miles a- way and uses the water to heat public buildings, .and the people own the hot water. If it were here, some private company would have a meter on that hot water, selling it to the city and explaining that cities must not en­ gage in business. However, we have many things tha t the Icelanders have not, and some day we may add to our possessions the ability to manage our own natural monopolies. I t is a long way off, but it will come. 4-H CLUB CONVENTION The annual meeting of the 4-H club officers and leaders o f Greene County was held Friday, June 5 a t the Court House in Xenia, Everyone present took part in the games and songs and then ,there were discussions. At 12 o’clock everyone. Went to Shawnee Park where they enjoyed a picnic A picture of those present was taken Those attending from the Home Helpers Cooking Club were: Dorothy Anderson, Wanda Turnbull, Elsie Post Geneva (jlemans, Elinor Hughes, Mary Coulter, Hazel Nelson and Isa­ dora Owens. Hiss Owens announced her resignation as news reporter. SEW EASY CLUB MEETS The Sew Easy sawing dub met Wed nesday afternoon a t the Library; Twenty members were present.. Ra­ chel Harriman and Marian Ferryman were elected news reporters. A re­ freshment committee was appointed for the hext meeting to be held June 17 a t the Library. Gaines Ware en­ joyed following the meeting. Charles Glenn, Raleigh, N. C., drop­ ped into town Saturday afternoon, af­ ter an absence of many years. Mr. Glenn was formerly a compositor, on the Herald and came here after grad­ uating a t the O. S. ft S. O, Home in the printing department. He left Ce­ darville in 1905 and has not been back. He was greatly surpriseed to find the many improvements since he left here and was impressed that the town had made wonderful progress. Paved streets, a new bank building, new school house, new science hall a t the college, water works, etc, ‘ He thinks homes look much better. Lawns a t­ tractive and that the depression has not taken us off the map. In compar­ ison with many southern towps he re­ ports business bad. The drougth last year and the depression has greatly injured much of the south. Since leaving Cedarville he has. spent fost of hfe time in the south, other than his stay abroad where he served in the late war for twenty-eight months. He was gassed a t the front ,and for months was confined in a hospital. After his discharge he was under gov- ermental care for many months and finally-landed -in-ther-forestry- depart­ ment of the government, being told that he must 'spend most of his time in the open. He was accompanied by his wife, who teaches in the Raleigh public schools. ‘ Speaking of depressions we ran a- cross an interesting sketch the other day which shows depressions or pan­ ics of the. past and how long each ran. vVe came through? all of them and it might be well to carefully review the list and take heart that things are no yorse than they are. Starting back in 1857 there was a misinesB depression that lasted twelve months. In 1969 there was another lasting eight months. m 1873 the depression lasted 30 months. ooin.iig down to 1884 thebad times existed for 22 months. The depression In 1887 lasted 10 months. Six years later, 1893 there was bad business for 26 months. ^ Ten years lapsed before there was another break*and in 1903 it lasted 25 months, _ , / I t was not so long until we had dis asterous business disturbance again and in 1907 it took twelve months to md things normal. \ Sevan years later—1914—wo had right months of 'complaining about poor business. The next break was in 1921-22 and /or fourteen months We experienced much the same of what we find today. At that time however property values probably did no t drop to present levels mit no one could complain during 1928 and the years th a t followed until the present break, This is the fourth business disturb­ ance we have experienced yet well do we remember what business men of this community and the country had to stand back in 1887 and again in i923. Going back to 1899 we find but cwo of our present business houses under the same management—the ■Smith Barbershop and the Herald. From tha record quoted above it ia plain to be seen that we can expect a jusiness disturbance over a period of yean. A new generation has follow­ ed that knows little of the experience of the past, A' safe rule to follow is to be “Prepared for a rainy day.” t Residents of South Charleston are to battle on whether the commission form of government is to remain or whether there will be a return to the old federal plan. Meantime Yellow Springs will vote this month whether they will drop the federal plan and adopt the commission form of govern­ ment. So fa r South Charleston is the smallest municipality in the country to adopt the commission plan and it has been in use about eleven years. Those who urge a return to the fed­ eral plan evidently have many rea­ sons for a change, if press reports are true. However a statement from the Commission followers has Hot yet been made public. One objection is the cost of the commission form to the taxpayer^. For instance the city manager gate an annual salary of 81,700 which ia not vary large in this day the standard we - have for salaries of an executive. In the way of comparison the salary ia ju st about twice whet it costs Cedarville tax payers to operate through council, mayor and marshal. The duties of the commission and city manager ia just about what a mayor, marshal have. Whether a town or city has commission or federal form of gov­ ernment it 4*penda on how efficient the officials perform their duty and give the tax payers value received for their money, without expending more than the town can afford. There can be just criticism of government un­ der either form if the officials do not give equal return to all classes. The greatest criticism of commission form we have heard is that i t soon becomes autocratic and' the" public funds are expended more for one class of citi- j sens than anothar. This is true in J Dayton, the first city to try the com*t mission government. Oakwood, an adjoining city whera most of the wealthy and aristocratic business ( man of Dayton reside, refuses to be-1 come a p a rt of Dayton. . Both branches of tha Ohio legis lature have passed the new tax law under tha classification amendment. After prolonged debate, there being many amendment* offered but defeat­ ed, the House Tuesday evening pas­ sed the measure, the largest percen­ tage of members being farmers. The farmers have opposed the new plan but the heads of farm organizations lobbyed for every vote possible in support of the measure. One of the promises of classification was that it would relieve the tax on real estate but even leaders in favor of the bill admit this will not be possible. Farm land and homes will be taxed a t 15 mills. Money a t 2 mills with different rates for different classes o f intan­ gibles. Those who advocated the bill say a low rate on money will bring out millions of dollars in hiding. The opposition hilds that it is a discrim­ ination against property owners. No *x can be collected on Liberty bonds yet a holder of stock in a company that pays no dividends must pay tax just the same.. Holders of stock in foreign companies cannot be taxed There will be no personal tax on household goods but partial exemp- fteae Is tb Jex to a t of fifty per"cent is allowed on farm machinery, machin­ ery used ia manufacturing, etc. The land and home owner must pay on full value aud i t was this point that brought forth many amendments but the House voted frost of them down. During the debate the bill was re­ ferred to as a “noble experiment” worth a trial. Criticism was voiced that if extra tax levies are passed such extra tax will be collected only from homes and farm land, or all real estate. 'Money in bank building and loan, stocks in corporations and all other intangible wealth will not be taxable. Opponents of this feature fought a desperate fight but were de­ feated a t every turn. Farm and home owners have no just cause for criticism of the new tax law in as much as the majority of the house membership is rural and those mem­ bers that supported the bill were urged to support it by paid leaders of the two main farm organizations in the Btate. Opponents of the bill at timeB have thrust sharp charges a- gainst one particular farm leader in as much, as it is a matter of record in a state office that he drew 82,500 for his services from the classification organization to campaign for the bill. ■ charges of performing *n IBegnJ 6 f“ Uration, breaks into Seventh District •politics. In as much as the Dr. b*X Jbeen a p a rt of a certain ooegress- iman’s organisation, it may taka some j inside work to squelch the chargee. | J o make matters worse it is hintqd Jthe wonian died on the table and to cover up, an incision was made for . appendicitis, supposedly to get by on ithe death certificate. The post mor- ;tum shows the incision for-supposed ;appendicitis, was made after her death. As a rule conviction of a phy­ sician on such charges Is usually rare, and the outcome is awaited with in­ terest. With Mai Daughtrty fighting a prison sentence for wrecking a hank, Pemberton and Brand have had a tough year keeping their henchmen out of troubles that do not tend to keep things running smoothly. Indictment against a physician and a nurse in a neighboring county on • i f ‘ % YOU PAY LESS AT 3 9 West Main Xenia Here We Are ]D FR E E Motion Pictures A Five Reel Picture and a Two in Opera House Thursday, June 18th Everyone invited to be a guest of Cedarville business men. These are not advertising films and no purchase of goods is required. Thursday Night Come Yourself and Tell I f «■ ! ' 1 Your Friends * Cedarville Community d u b